Lil Wayne’s Son Dwayne Carter Lands Colorado Football Offer From Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders is at it again. The Colorado head coach extended a scholarship offer to Dwayne Carter, the 17-year-old son of Lil Wayne, back in June. This week the story finally went national when Carter debuted as the kicker for Gainesville High School in Georgia.
Carter drilled two field goals in the game, and SportsCenter Next posted the highlight to a few million viewers. The Buford Wolves beat Gainesville 39-19, but Carter’s name is now in the recruiting conversation whether he wanted it there yet or not.
This is peak Prime. Sanders has built the Colorado brand on names, timing, and story. A kicker who happens to be Lil Wayne’s son checks every box. It does not matter that Carter is a JV kicker who transferred from North Atlanta High School. The offer is real, the name is real, and the internet did the rest.
Some fans will roll their eyes and call this a marketing move. Fine. But Colorado does not have to justify a scholarship offer to a 17 year old kicker to anyone. If Carter develops into a serious specialist over the next two years, the Buffs already have a foot in the door. If he does not, no scholarship gets wasted because Colorado can pull the offer any time.
The context matters too. Sanders famously coached his own son at Jackson State and Colorado. He knows exactly how a famous last name interacts with a locker room. Nobody in college football is better equipped to handle a recruit whose dad has 12 Grammys.
Carter posted on X that he was “blessed and honored” to receive his first D1 offer, and tagged both Sanders and his high school coach. That is a normal 17 year old recruit reaction. The story sits on top of it because of who his father is.
Gainesville plays McEachern on September 11 in a battle of top 15 teams in Georgia. That is the next real look at Carter as a kicker. Until then, Colorado gets a week of free recruiting buzz, and every rival coach in the country gets to explain why they did not offer first.
Prime does not miss this stuff. He never has.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
