Daisy Foko Granson is married to tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles Kylen Granson, but as an inventor with two filed patents, it's probably the least interesting thing about her.
Daisy Foko Granson and Kylen Granson
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Daisy Foko Granson is opening up to PEOPLE about what it is like to be a full-time content creator and podcaster while being married to someone who plays in the NFL
Daisy is the host of the educational podcast "Daizzz @ Night," which has hosted guests like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and beyond
In addition to her work on her podcast, Daisy is an inventor, with two filed and approved patents — including one she designed specifically for her husband Kyle Granson
Daisy Foko Granson understands why you might call her a WAG, but it isn’t necessarily a term she identifies with.
How could it be, when the podcast host and influencer also has two patents for inventions of her own design?
Granson recently married tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles Kylen Granson, but it is probably the least interesting thing about her.
Perhaps like many people who “fell” into social media fame, Daisy maintains that she never wanted to be on TikTok in the first place. Her best friend, Teva, begged her early on to join the app, back when the platform was still Musical.ly.
“She was like a dog with a bone,” Daisy tells PEOPLE exclusively.
All of the friend duo’s conversations kept coming back to the platform, until finally Daisy says she was convinced to post on the platform for one week, with the deal that her best friend would “leave her alone” after the fact.
“I started posting memes and random stuff, and then I did a story time of getting out of a traffic ticket,” the content creator explains. “I woke up and it had like 1.6 million views, and I was like Teva’s going to be so insufferable after this.”
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Daisy Foko and Kylen Granson.
Off of the one video, Daisy gained about 10,000 new followers. She continued to post story times about her life, all while working for an Audi dealership in Dallas. At the time, Kylen was still playing football at Southern Methodist University. So, Daisy would make a lot of her videos in the bathroom of the dealership or in the back of cars.
Throughout school and growing up, Daisy says she was “really good” at history, even becoming a history teaching assistant during her time at SMU.
Her content began to morph into chats centering around history and then science. Now, on Instagram she boasts nearly 100,00 followers, and almost 900,000 on TikTok.
“The first few years that Kylen was in the NFL, I would post a video here or there, like ‘Oh yeah, my boyfriend’s in the NFL,’” Daisy explains. “People thought I was joking because my platform was pretty nerdy.”
Kylen is “pretty nerdy” as well, Daisy says, pointing to a non-profit that her husband runs called KG Kids, dedicated to childhood literacy and providing children with books.
Ultimately, “by popular demand,” Daisy’s content morphed into her podcast, Daizzz @ Night, which she describes as a “random” of information where the "extraordinary is celebrated.” The podcast is an exploration of knowledge, Daisy describes it.
“Basically every episode is a different person who has a niche thing that they do and then asking, ‘What’s that like?’” she says.
Season 1 of the podcast kicked off with astrophysicist Neil deGrass Tyson, but quickly veered into a much more eclectic lineup.
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Daisy Foko Granson and Kylen Granson.
“I had a pornstar on for episode 3 and now she’s a DJ… we’ve had comedians come on, I had a costume designer come on, we’ve had some actors come on,” Daisy lists. “We had this one guy who does political impressions and political commentary… I had a guy whose whole thing was, he went on Netflix and made robots out of cake.”
Essentially, “Whatever somebody’s thing is or they nerd out over, I nerd out with them,” Daisy says.
Though Daisy produces educational content for millions, she actually dropped out of college. She first pursued acting before spinal surgery forced her to leave her conservatory program. Later, she enrolled in a STEM program, but when a credit policy changed, she faced the prospect of an additional two and a half years of coursework.
“I wasn’t about to do undergrad for seven years,” she says, despite describing her family as a “very educated one.” She continues, “I already had my patents. College is just too expensive to be doing all that.”
Daisy joins the ranks of many for whom a college degree was not a necessary jumping-off point in their success. A critical and perhaps surprising line on Daisy’s packed résumé is her two patents that she has filed for inventions. Her first was a THC lipstick (the wax itself has THC in it) that she designed at 19 — “very 19-year-old of me,” she admits.
Her second patent came from a more personal place, born while we were all stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The device, as Daisy describes it, is designed to aid in ACL recovery, one of the most common injuries in football.
“It’s like a little Chinese finger trap that holds onto the ligament,” she explains. There’s cotton in the middle that you inject the patient’s blood into, because your ACL doesn’t naturally repair itself,” she explains.
“I wanted to invent something that might help Kylen with football,” she says simply. “I thought it would be romantic.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Daizzz @ Night.'.
The device tricks the torn tendon into thinking it’s already touching, so it is able to heal itself. Then the device dissolves into a person’s body like stitches, and the barbs holding it in place have growth hormones in them.
“If it works in human trials the way we hope, it could make recovery so much shorter — maybe players won’t have to be out for the season," Daisy explains.
Now, based in Philadelphia after Kylen’s move to the Eagles, Daisy says the transition has been seamless.
“It’s been amazing. I love Philly,” she gushes. “I’m an East Coast girl at heart. My mom is from New York, my dad’s from D.C., and I went to school in New York. The Midwest was a fun chapter, but I feel like I'm reinvigorated being back on the East Coast.”
The fan base, she adds, has been incredibly warm. “They’re just so excited about everything, which I feel like they get a bad rep, but I think that’s something to really love about them,” she says. “It’s better to show up and be passionate and maybe be upset, than to have a city that is indifferent.”
Both the significant others and the players have also been open toward Daisy, she says, noting how so many of the players came up to her on the first day of practice to introduce themselves.
Daisy and Kylen tied the knot in Chicago back in July, after dating for six years, and having first met as college students. Their wedding was as nerdy as the Gransons themselves, taking place at the Chicago Field Museum and featuring a dinosaur skeleton in the background.
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Daisy Foko Granson. Courtesy of Daisy Foko Granson
“Everyone was like, ‘Are you ever going to get married?’” she laughs. “Our life’s very chaotic and we spent a lot of time establishing our careers. Trying to plan a wedding to the scale we had when he was first coming into the NFL and I was still freshly having a large platform would have been very overwhelming.”
Daisy is candid about the instability that comes with both her and Kylen’s careers. “[Football and social media] are both really fluid career choices,” she says. “Kylen is a lot more grounded about it. I feel like partners are often a lot more stressed out by the instability than the guys themselves.”
The pair keeps things routine during the season to manage the instability and uncertainty that might come with both of their career paths. The couple will eat, watch a show and play video games, Daisy says, when Kylen comes home from work.
“We’re very boring during the season,” she jokes.
And, while the pair isn’t very superstitious like some NFL players and their significant others, the pair does have some rituals that they like to keep during the season.
“The whole time we’ve been together, like the day before when he has to leave for the game, we’ll just yell, 'I love you' back and forth until we’re so far away we can’t see each other,” she says.
Despite her own robust career, Daisy is aware of the way that being an NFL wife changes the way she is perceived in the public eye.
“I’ll get people commenting ‘You’re clout chasing off your husband,” she says. “But the reality is, because it’s such an unstable career and it takes up so much time and there’s so much on the line, it just impacts a lot of your daily life.”
“It is only a good thing that the wives are starting to be involved in the cultural conversations surrounding the NFL because it adds to a greater empathy for the players,” she continues.
“When somebody drops a pass, people are like ‘Oh their family’s out their watching them,’and it reminds people that even though there’s a lot on the line and we’re all very invested in the game, there’s certain boundaries we don’t need to cross when it comes to sports."