Johnny Manziel is headed to the small screen.
The former Browns quarterback, 32, is rounding out the star-studded cast of the upcoming fourth season of Fox’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test,” in which athletes and reality stars will face harrowing challenges that will push them both physically and emotionally.
Manziel, who famously flamed out of the NFL after two turbulent seasons with Cleveland, is just one of the many athletes part of this season’s cast, joining retired wideout Randall Cobb, ex-Jets receiver Eric Decker and his wife, country singer Jessie James Decker, and former long snapper Andrew East and his wife, famed Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson.
Christie Pearce Rampone, a World Cup and Olympic soccer champ, and Nick Young, an NBA guard, will also star.
The show, which first premiered in January 2023, will see the recruits venture to Morocco, where they’ll be tasked to endure “training challenges across the country’s expansive desert terrain, including a supply search in an abandoned village where they must race to extraction, a treacherous rat-run through dark and narrow tunnels, a plane shell dunk drill where pairs of recruits will be submerged underwater” and more, according to Deadline.
Bravo’s Teresa Giudice and her daughter, Gia Giudice, also make up the cast, as well as “The Valley’s” Brittany Cartwright, “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum Eva Marcille, model Chanel Iman, “Sister Wives” star Kody Brown, actors Ravi V. Patel and Jussie Smollett, and social media personalities Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and Mark Estes.
A former first-round pick with the Browns in 2014, Manziel dazzled in the college ranks at Texas A&M — where he won the Heisman Trophy as a freshman in 2012 — but failed to bring the moxie to the pro level as he combatted substance abuse issues and off-field controversies.
In the years following his 2016 release from the Browns, Manziel opened up about his widely chronicled spiral, sharing in the 2023 Netflix documentary “Untold: Johnny Football” that he contemplated taking his own life.
The quarterback went on to have stints in the CFL and the since-defunct Alliance of American Football.
Manziel recently shared on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast that he pondered what an NFL comeback would look like last year.
“I asked myself this question last year,” Manziel said. “Got myself into a mindset of like, ‘OK, I’m going to go start working out again, throwing the football around, see if I can still get myself in shape.'”
In 14 appearances for the Browns, Manziel threw for 1,675 yards, seven touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Manziel has since shifted focus to the “World’s Toughest Test,” which premieres Sept. 25.