Glen Powell’s Russ Holliday is going back under the prosthetics on September 3, 2026. Chad Powers Season 2 arrives with all six episodes releasing at once, streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
The important part is that Russ’s disguise is no longer simply the premise of the show. By the second season, the lie has become the story.
Disney’s official Season 2 description says Chad has become a superstar on the field, while his increasingly strange behavior away from football has made people suspicious. Coach Hudson and Gerry are among those beginning to notice that something does not add up. Russ and Danny are trying to keep the deception alive long enough for Chad to finish the regular season and lead the South Georgia Catfish toward the College Football Playoff.
That gives Season 2 a more specific problem than simply asking whether Russ can successfully pretend to be Chad Powers. The question now is how long an invented person can survive once he becomes famous.
Chad Powers Season 2 premieres September 3, 2026
The release date is confirmed: all six episodes of Chad Powers Season 2 arrive Thursday, September 3, 2026.
Hulu lists Chad Powers: Complete Season 2 on its official September schedule for that date. Disney’s international announcements also confirm that all six episodes will arrive on Disney+ on September 3.
That means this is not a weekly rollout. Viewers will be able to watch the entire second season immediately.
For U.S. audiences, the season is on Hulu. Disney’s official international material places the series on Disney+, although availability can depend on territory and local Disney+ programming arrangements.
Glen Powell returns as both Russ Holliday and Chad Powers
Powell remains the center of the series, playing disgraced quarterback Russ Holliday and his carefully constructed alter ego, Chad Powers.
The premise remains rooted in Russ’s attempt to resurrect a football career destroyed years earlier. Disney describes him as a once-promising quarterback whose career was derailed by an unforgivable mistake. Eight years later, he disguises himself as Chad Powers, an eccentric but talented player who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.
Powell created the series with Michael Waldron, and both have been central to the show from the beginning. Eli Manning and Peyton Manning are also executive producers, connecting the series to the real-life Manning stunt that helped inspire its original premise.
The premise is deliberately absurd, but Season 2 appears interested in pushing the absurdity into more dangerous territory. Russ is no longer hiding quietly at the edge of a football program. Chad has become too successful to remain unnoticed.
That is a problem when your identity depends on nobody looking too closely.
The Catfish are winning, which makes Russ’s secret harder to keep
Disney’s official synopsis for Season 2 makes the stakes unusually clear.
Chad is now a star. His success has increased attention around him, while his off-field behavior is creating suspicion. The “walls are closing in” on Russ’s lie, according to Disney, and Russ and Danny need help from Ricky, described as the last person who wants to help them.
That suggests Season 2 will spend less time establishing the Chad Powers identity and more time dealing with its consequences.
The first season built toward the possibility that Russ’s deception could be exposed. The official Season 1 episode descriptions show Chad becoming a superstar as the Catfish reach a 5-0 record, before the truth threatens to emerge on the eve of a major game.
Season 2 picks up with the deception still intact, but with a new problem: keeping Chad believable as his profile grows.
The basic tension is almost built for escalation. A mediocre player might disappear into a roster. A star quarterback becomes a public figure.
Perry Mattfeld, Steve Zahn and the returning cast are back
Disney’s official series listings identify Perry Mattfeld, Quentin Plair, Wynn Everett, Frankie Rodriguez and Steve Zahn among the principal cast alongside Powell.
The returning characters matter because Season 2 is increasingly about who knows what.
Ricky, played by Mattfeld, is particularly important to the new season’s official setup because Disney identifies her as the person Russ and Danny may need despite her reluctance to help. Coach Hudson, played by Steve Zahn, is also specifically named as one of the people becoming suspicious of Chad’s unusual behavior.
Disney’s promotional material also names Gerry as another character growing suspicious of Chad.
The result is a tighter dramatic setup than a simple sports-comedy continuation. Russ has allies, but they are under pressure. He has people around him who do not know the truth, but at least some of them are beginning to investigate the inconsistencies.
For a character built entirely around performance, that is the worst possible environment.
Season 2 has six episodes, and the titles continue the football theme
Like the first season, Season 2 consists of six episodes. Disney confirms the six-episode count, and the episodes continue the show’s quarter-based naming convention.
Third-party episode listings currently identify the season’s titles as “7th Quarter” through “12th Quarter,” continuing directly from Season 1’s six “quarter” episodes. Rotten Tomatoes also lists plot summaries for those episodes, including a mid-game injury, growing suspicion around Chad, a road-trip disruption and a major threat to his identity.
Those episode-specific descriptions should be treated more cautiously than Disney’s official season synopsis, however. Disney and Hulu have clearly confirmed the season’s release date, six-episode format and broad story direction, while not every detailed episode synopsis has been presented in the same official promotional material available ahead of release.
The confirmed picture is still clear enough: the season is moving forward from Russ’s initial comeback attempt rather than resetting the premise.
The show’s biggest question is no longer whether Chad can play football
Chad Powers began with a simple comic proposition: what happens when a disgraced quarterback uses an elaborate disguise to get another chance?
By Season 2, the disguise has worked almost too well.
Chad is successful. The South Georgia Catfish have something significant to play for. More people are watching. And the people closest to him are beginning to notice that the supposedly harmless oddball quarterback has a backstory full of holes.
Disney’s description says Russ’s lie is increasingly threatened, while the official setup places Ricky in the uncomfortable position of potentially helping keep it alive.
That is probably the real reason Season 2 has a sharper premise than simply “more Chad Powers.” Russ Holliday has spent years trying to escape the consequences of his past by becoming someone else.
The trouble with becoming Chad Powers is that eventually everyone wants to know who Chad Powers really is.
