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Charles Curtis

How Kool-Aid McKinstry got his awesome nickname (and what his actual first name is)

Kool-Aid McKinstry might be one of the names called on Day 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft, or perhaps in Rounds 2 or 3.

But it’ll be Kool-Aid that’s called out by a team. And where, might you be asking, did he get that name that makes you want to shout “OH YEAH!” when you see it?

We have an answer, via the Tuscaloosa News: When he was born, his mom passed him to his grandmother and McKinstry was apparently smiling.

“I told his mom,” Brenda told the site, “‘Look at this boy with this big Kool-Aid smile on his face.’”

For the record: his given name is Ga’Quincy.

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