Personal Information Summary | |
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Name | Will Grier |
Mother / Mom | Elizabeth Grier-Floyd |
Sister | Skylynn Elizabeth Floyd (half-sister) |
Siblings | He is the oldest of four siblings |
Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Girlfriend / Dating | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | April 3, 1995. As of 2024, he is around 29 years old. |
Did Will Grier graduate College? | In May 2014, Grier graduated from Mecklenburg County’s Davidson Day School. |
Children / No of Kids | 2 |
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
Nationality | American |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Will Grier is an American football player who plays for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
Personal Life, Relationships, Education and Family :
- Will was born on April 3, 1995, in Davidson, North Carolina.
- Family and Parents : Father Chad Grier and Mother Elizabeth Floyd. His father Chad coaches football and he also was a quarterback for the East Carolina Pirates. The parents are separated.
- Will is the oldest sibling in his family. He has two brothers, Nash Grier and Hayes Grier, who are both internet personalities; they were popular users of “Vine” (defunct video sharing service).
- He also has a half-sister called Skylynn Floyd (His mother had her with his current husband).
- Education : He studied at “Davidson Day School” and later at “University of Florida.”
Relationships, Dating and Marriage :
- When Will started his career at the Florida Gators, he had a relationship with Taylor Walker, but the relationship didn’t work out so they broke up.
- Will is currently married to Jeanne Marie Grier (Jeanne O’Neil) a former Buccaneers cheerleader. The couple announced their engagement in July 2016, after one year of dating.
- At the same time, they announced that Jeanne was pregnant.
- In 2016, they welcomed their daughter named Eloise Marie Grier.
Professional Life : Football Career and Net Worth
- Will started playing High School football at “Davidson Day School.”
- After that he received good offers from several teams like North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, but he decided to head to the Florida Gators.
- In April 2016, he announced that he was transferred to “West Virginia University” but said that he will sit out the 2016 season due to NCAA transfer rules.
Height, Stats and Interesting Facts :
- Will Grier Height : 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).
- When he was playing at his school, he got a national record of 837 yards in a game, breaking the old record of 764 yards.
- In 2013, he was awarded the “ESPN RISE National Player of the Year” (also known as “Mr. Football USA”), which is an award presented to the United States high school football National Player of the year.
- In 2014, when he was on Spring Break, he donated shoes off his feet to a homeless man.
- In 2015, he was suspended after a failed drug test for performance-enhancing drugs. Will said that the test was positive due to the over the counter supplement “Ligandrol” and that he didn’t know it was banned but his appeal was rejected by the NCAA. He had a one-year suspension that continued in 2016.
Social Media Presence :
- Will has Twitter (now called X) and Instagram account. He doesn’t use Twitter (now called X) regularly, but he is very popular on Instagram. As of 2017, he has 650,000+ followers.
- He shares information about his football team, but his posts mostly revolve around his family, especially his young daughter.