Mark Wahlberg’s Crazy Doc Series ‘Cocaine Quarterback’ Full Trailer

Mark Wahlberg’s Crazy Doc Series ‘Cocaine Quarterback’ Full Trailer

by Alex Billington
September 10, 2025
Source: YouTube

“What have I gotten myself into?” Deep down into the drug trafficking spiral… Amazon has debuted the full official trailer for this crazy up-to-date 3-part documentary series called Cocaine Quarterback, streaming later this month (right at the start of football season). It’s a up-to-date doc from Mark Wahlberg’s company Unrealistic Ideas. As much this sounds like an “unrealistic idea”, it’s an entirely true story. This isn’t a fictional tale! The doc series does feature dramatizations and reenactments, but it this really happened (more on him here). Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel (the full title) follows the FBI’s capture of Owen Hanson, a former USC football player who became major drug kingpin in the early 00s. Detailing Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings, to unexpectedly walking on to the powerhouse USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine. After years in prison, Hanson is out now on parole. And this doc includes him telling all about what happened, as well as inside details and archival footage and so much more. Most of this was also detailed in Hanson’s book titled “The California Kid”. This doesn’t even seem that wild! Just another American who saw a key opportunity to make some large money and went for it.

Trailer for Prime Video’s doc series Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel, via YouTube:

A three-part doc series from Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas, Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel tells the cautionary tale of convicted drug trafficker Owen Hanson (nicknamed “O-Dog”), detailing Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings, to unexpectedly walking on to powerhouse USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine. After graduation, with superstar friends making millions in the NFL, the lure of brisk money soon becomes too much to resist. Owen parlays his small-time criminality into a risky alliance with a powerful Mexican drug lord, intertwining his quest for wealth with the deadly world of organized crime. When his harebrained money laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Owen is caught in a web of unsafe debt, absurd criminal mishap, and thrilling FBI investigation. Fueled by the insights of people who lived all sides of the case, including Hanson himself, along with a stylish dramatization, the series details Owen’s unbelievable journey from celebrated athlete to cocaine kingpin at the pinnacle of the drug world… with only one direction left to go.

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel is produced by Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas. This 3-part doc series is directed by Jody McVeigh-Schultz, also the director on Echo Lake, “The Murders at Starved Rock”, “Spy High” doc series. The documentary is executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, David Wendell, and Jody McVeigh-Schultz. Amazon debuts the Cocaine Quarterback doc series streaming on Prime Video starting September 25th, 2025 coming up. Who’s curious to watch?

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