Darrell Doucette

Darrell "Housh" Doucette III (born June 29, 1989) is an American flag football player who is a quarterback for the United States national team.

Darrell Doucette

Born:	(1989-06-29) June 29, 1989 (age 36) (age 36) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Career information
Position(s)	Quarterback
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Career history
As player
2020–	United States

Career

Doucette grew up in New Orleans, the son of an NOPD homicide detective, Darrell Doucette Jr.^[1] He attended St. Simon Peter School in New Orleans East and played multiple sports growing up, including track and field, tackle football, and bowling, in which he won state championships.^[1][2] He attended Xavier University of Louisiana, where he got into flag football on an intramural team.^[1] He is nicknamed "Housh" for his resemblance of NFL player T. J. Houshmandzadeh.^[1]

Doucette led the amateur side Fighting Cancer to win the first edition of the American Flag Football League in 2018, being named the most valuable player of the final in which his team defeated a team of professional track and field athletes and NFL players 26–6.^[3]

Doucette joined the United States national team in 2020.^[4] He led the United States to its fourth world title in a row at the 2021 IFAF Men's Flag Football World Championship.^[1] He won a gold medal for the United States at the 2022 World Games, the sport's first appearance at the event.^[5] He was named the most valuable player of the final game of the 2023 IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship, where the United States went 7–0 to win the tournament.^[6] He defended his country's world title at the 2024 IFAF Men's Flag Football World Championship, the same month that he said in a viral interview that NFL players should not expect to be handed spots on the Olympic team over longtime flag football players when the sport makes its debut at the 2028 Summer Olympics.^[7]