Ex-Ottawa Redblacks QB Devlin 'Duck' Hodges proposes to country superstar Lainey Wilson
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Four years after playing for the Ottawa Redblacks, former quarterback Devlin “Duck” Hodges has completed the biggest pass of his life.
It wasn’t with a football, but the engagement ring he gave country superstar Lainey Wilson.
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The 32-year-old Grammy Award winner used her Instagram account Wednesday to announce she will wed Hodges, her boyfriend of four years.
“4x4xU forever,” Wilson’s post read under a photo of Hodges proposing to her.
Following a decorated college career at Samford, Hodges joined the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2019. After injuries to Ben Roethlisberger and Mason Rudolph, he made six starts with a 3-3 record for Mike Tomlin’s team.
The 28-year-old Alabaman was waived the following year and after six off-season months with the Los Angeles Rams, was signed by the Redblacks to a three-year deal on Sept. 16, 2021.
Hodges appeared in two games and made one start for Ottawa — a 23-20 loss to the Toronto Argos on Nov. 6 — and completed 16 of 38 passes for 139 yards and an interception.
He retired from pro football the following April.
Hodges became a licensed real estate agent in Tennessee while also proudly stating he enjoyed traveling to concerts and being on the road with Wilson, whom he met through mutual friends in Nashville in 2021.
Last month, in an interview with Bunnie Xo on CMT, Wilson said “I might have to propose to him.”
Bunnie replied: “No, Duck’s gonna do it. I could feel it.”
A nine-time CMA Award winner, Wilson previously said she didn’t write love songs because she was never with anyone who inspired her to create romantic music.
But she said during a 2023 interview with American Songwriter that all changed when she met Hodges.
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