As per reports, YouTube sensation “Deestroying”, real name Donald De La Haye, has been signed by the San Antonio Brahmas to play in the UFL.
YouTube Star Deestroying has signed with the #UFL. He is joining the San Antonio Brahmas 👏pic.twitter.com/wSd0tbuaS5
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 31, 2024
As the UFL signing continues with the training camp approaching, the league announced on Tuesday the signings of seven players among four teams.
As part of the signing announcement, one of the big names to be joining the UFL is former NFL running back Wayne Gallman with the St. Louis Battlehawks.
However, the major report on the UFL signing is Brahmas’s dealing De La Haye, who started his YouTube career in 2015, building a following through his kicker trick-shot videos.
He has played football at the University of Central Florida in 2015-16 and also played in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts in 2019 and appeared in two preseason games.
The YouTuber has over 5.7 million subscribers, who started his YouTube channel in 2015 drawing some unwanted attention from the NCAA.
He has never played in the NFL, but during two preseason games with the Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in 2019, he made a 16-yard field goal and booted a 46-yard punt.
On Tuesday, he reacted on his YouTube channel after joining the UFL in an extended video, he said,
“I could cry right now, bro. This whole entire time, I was trying to figure out what my options are. Maybe I have some eligibility left to go back to college. I might get an NFL tryout. Maybe I have to go to USFL, maybe I have to go play in Europe. Do something. And literally, at this moment, it all just became clear.”
