The college football transfer portal has lots and lots of name.
The newest might be the best: Gideon ESPN Lampron.
He's a linebacker who just had 119 tackles, including 17.5 tackles for loss, for Bowling Green in 2025, and now he's in the portal, according to On3's Hayes Fawcett.
Lampron is a native of northeast Ohio who attended LaGrange Keystone High School. He then played at the University of Dayton before coming to BGSU.
And yes, his middle name is ESPN.
The Toledo Blade's David Briggs revealed this fun fact in a column earlier this season.
“It was a big gamble,” Lampron told Briggs, “because I could have ended up liking instruments and being in the band, or something.”
Lampron was a first-team FCS All-American at Dayton. Then he had a monster season for the BGSU Falcons.
This seems like a chance for Lampron to take one more big step up the college football ladder.
Briggs reports that Lampron's dad, Marty, snuck in ESPN as the middle name without mother Jennifer knowing.
“I didn’t fully realize until I got Gideon’s social security card and there it was, in all caps,” Jennifer told Briggs. “I couldn’t believe it. This couldn’t be real.”
Lampron got to play on ESPN more at Bowling Green as part of mid-week MACtion. If he plays his cards right, he can have even more of a spotlight next fall.
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