Lainey Wilson found a forever love with former NFL quarterback Devlin “Duck” Hodges. In May 2026, the couple exchanged vows in a picturesque Ruskin Cave, Tennessee, wedding five years after they first met on a blind date.
“Duck and I were driving backroads in Tennessee and saw a billboard for The Ruskin Cave,” Lainey told Vogue about their wedding venue, adding that Duck asked her, “‘You wanna get married there?’ I said, ‘Done deal.’ We dropped by, saw the venue, and fell in love with the natural beauty of the cave and the simplicity of the property.”
Lainey debuted her relationship with Duck to the public when they walked the red carpet together at the ACM Awards in May 2023, more than two years after they started dating.
Keep reading to learn more about Duck and his relationship with Lainey.
Duck was a star athlete in high school before taking his talents to his home state college of Samford, where he excelled as a quarterback and was named the Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year three times. He got the nickname “Duck” from his college football coach, Lainey revealed on The Bobby Bones Show in June 2023.
“His college football coach was like, ‘You’re one of the best quarterbacks I’ve ever worked with. And you remind me a lot of one of my favorite quarterbacks I got to work with years ago, and we called him Duck.’ And so he and the team just kind of started calling him Duck,” Lainey said. “Turns out [Devlin] was also a duck hunter.”
