News of a Friday Night Lights reboot doesn’t mean that every familiar face will be back in Dillon.
The sports drama, which aired on NBC from 2006 to 2011, followed a high school football team in a fictional Texas town. Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton lead the cast of FNL, which helped skyrocket several people to fame including Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Jesse Plemons, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Michael B. Jordan and more.
More than a decade after the series came to an end, it was confirmed that original creators Jason Katims, Pete Berg and Brian Grazer were in the early stages of rebooting the show. The adaptation would introduce Us to new characters — but will some of the OG find a way to reprise their fan-favorite characters?
Several Friday Night Lights alums have weighed in on whether they got the call — or whether they would even be interested in returning to the fictional football world after finding success with new projects.
Keep scrolling to find out where the cast stands on the reboot:
Connie Britton
Britton, who played Tami, hasn’t revealed her thoughts on the 2025 reboot news, but she previously questioned a potential onscreen reunion.
“We’ll do a reunion for sure, like a cast reunion, [but] I don’t see them going back into that story, at least with this cast,” she said in a July 2021 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I heard inklings a few years ago that they were gonna make another Friday Night Lights. Now meanwhile, we know we’ve already had a movie, we already had this TV show, and then if they were to do it again with like, a whole different iteration of it, I don’t know. I would think that would be sort of odd.”
Kyle Chandler
As of early 2025, there was no official offer for Chandler to play coach Eric Taylor again.
“I have not [been offered anything]. No calls. Nothing,” Chandler said on the Today show in January 2025. “I don’t know what I’ll say [if I’m asked].”
Taylor Kitsch
After the reboot was announced, Kitsch teased on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight With Jessica Shaw in January 2025 that he received an offer, saying, “I’ve been asked and we’ll leave it at that. But I’m good. I’m always flattered. Never say never.”
Kitsch didn’t rule out returning as fullback Tim Riggins. “I would come in and do something, maybe for an episode or something, but I don’t want to go and do the whole thing. I’d go and have fun,” he clarified. “But I don’t want to lead FNL or a reboot or anything. I love the continuous challenging roles and to keep pushing.”
To be even more specific, Kitsch said he could either return as Riggins or as a new character.
“I could create something that could be hopefully pretty fun. But I think if you saw me as someone else, you’d be like, ‘That’s Riggins,’” he continued. “Especially in that element if you’re in Texas or doing it the way they’re gonna do it. I would go do maybe play an opposing team’s coach or something and be on screen for, like, eight seconds.”
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Zach Gilford
Gilford won Us over playing quarterback-turned-art school student Matt on all five seasons of Friday Night Lights. While he has yet to weigh in on the reboot, he exclusively told Us Weekly that he was actually onboard with returning to the FNL world — with a few stipulations.
“What made that show was the authenticity. As long as there was some storyline that wasn’t contrived to bring a number of the characters back together, I’m all for it,” he shared in May 2024 about supporting a revival “even if I’m not a part” of it. “But if it was just some very contrived way of getting the band back together. I think it would diminish what that show was.”
Minka Kelly
“I think it’s always best leaving people — if even they do — wanting more. I think leaving that where it was is probably the right thing to do,” Kelly, who played Lyla, told Deadline in April 2025. “Maybe too much sometimes is too much. I don’t know that they need more Lyla.”
Kelly noted that her character on Ransom Canyon was similar to Lyla, adding, “I think Quinn is maybe Lyla 20 years later, a little bit more grown up. So I’m just gonna focus on Quinn for now.”
Scott Porter
Porter, who played Jason Street, joined Gilford and Friday Night Lights fan and fellow actress Mae Whitman as a cohost of a FNL rewatch podcast. Porter hasn’t weighed in on potential plans to make an appearance in the reboot yet.
Aimee Teegarden
Teegarden has been outspoken about her close bond with her former Friday Night Lights costars after playing Julie, telling Us in March 2024, “I see castmates every now and then at different events or things like that or just catching up … It was really wonderful just reconnecting with people who have been in your life [during] your formative years. Everybody gets busy with life and just being able to spend some face time was great.”
Teegarden said the Texas-based TV show “played such an important part of my life and was such a huge part of my life for so long.” While she noted she wouldn’t be opposed to doing another project about football, there hasn’t been an update on her end yet about the Friday Night Lights reboot specifically.
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Jesse Plemons
It remains to be seen whether there’s room for Landry in the reboot but Plemons has continued to reunite with his costars. In 2025, the actor shared the screen with Britton on Netflix’s Zero Day, which she told Us about, saying, “It was so wonderful. When you get onto a set like this — a big show like this where it can feel pretty daunting — to have people there that you’ve worked with before, that you know and love and trust, it’s the best thing in the world.”
Michael B. Jordan
Vince might make a cameo in the reboot — if Jordan gets the call.
“I would pop in for an episode. I would. I think I feel that way more than I do The Wire, because I think I was part of the original cast,” he told GQ in April 2025. “I think the fact that I came in season 4 FNL, I felt like if they did a reboot, I was like ‘Alright, I can come get in this world. I’m cool with that.’”
