Will Levis explains banana video: "It tasted like banana bread"

Will Levis is a popular man around the internet this week, but not because he was named the winner of Kentucky’s three-way quarterback competition on Sunday.

Everyone is more interested (and in many cases, outraged) in how the new QB1 takes his fruit after Levis shared a diabolical video of him eating a rotten banana peel on TikTok. The video went viral the same day he was named the starting quarterback, shared by The New York Post, Barstool Sports and on SportsCenter’s social media accounts, just to name a few.

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On Tuesday, Levis addressed his unique way of getting potassium during a post-practice interview at the podium.

“The bananas? If anyone is asking, like, he eats a banana like that every time? I do,” Levis replied to a question about his viral video. “That’s how I eat bananas — no, I’m kidding.

“It just kind of came to me. I think I saw someone else do it on social media and people were overreacting about it, and I was like, oh, that probably won’t be too bad. So I did that one day. I was over at my girlfriend’s place, she had some bananas they were about to throw out and I was like, hold on, let me get some content out there,” he explained.

And the taste?

“It was good. It tasted like banana bread. It was pretty good.”

Levis has over 60,000 followers on TikTok with more than a million views across all of his videos on the app. He has another 40,000 followers on Instagram where he shows many other non-football life moments.

With new opportunities through Name, Image, Likeness, Levis said it is important to show who he is off of the field to expand his personal brand as UK Football’s QB.

“Obviously with this new NIL stuff, I wasn’t the kind of person to throw my whole life out there on social media, but now it has kind of turned into a necessity to really build your brand and get content out there and give people insight into your lifestyle, your sense of humor, your friends and everything.”

The personal stuff is nice, but don’t let that banana clip distract you from what he did in the open practice.