Scott A. Frantz (born June 7, 1996) is an American former

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player who was an

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for the

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. He earned second-team all-conference honors in the

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as a senior in 2019. Frantz attended Free State High School in

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70 in Kansas, Interstate 70, between the Kansas River ...

, before committing to play at

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. In 2017, Frantz publicly

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as gay, joining My-King Johnson as two of the first openly gay players in the

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(FBS). Later that same year, Frantz became the first openly gay college football player to play in a game for an FBS school. He started 51 straight games for the Wildcats and was named second-team All-Big-12 in his senior year in 2019. He went undrafted in the

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Living people 1996 births Players of American football from Lawrence, Kansas Kansas State Wildcats football players American football offensive tackles American gay sportsmen LGBTQ people from Kansas LGBTQ players of American football 21st-century American sportsmen {{offensive-lineman-1990s-stub

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