Actor George Eads played Investigator Nick Stokes, a young, all-American-type character on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," and viewers later find out in the Season 10 episode "Bloodsport" that Stokes also played football as a kid in Texas.

So, it's only fitting that, 20 years after getting that part, he graduated to the part of a football coach in "This Is Us."

Granted, the two parts are hardly comparable on his resume. He played Nick on "CSI" for 15 years and more than 300 episodes, whereas he only appeared twice, months apart, as the unnamed coach on Season 5 of "This Is Us."

It seems like it was just a little something he did to stay busy after his previous full-time gig ended. Just a year after leaving "CSI," he was back on CBS as a chief supporting star on "MacGyver" in 2016. He stuck with that for the first three seasons before leaving in 2019. 

There's no word on what he'll be doing next. "This Is Us" ended for good earlier this year, so there's no chance of coming back to his coach character.

Fans, of course, are hoping that Eads will show up on the "CSI" revival series "CSI: Vegas," which debuted last fall. It currently features his old co-stars, William Petersen ("Manhunter," 1986) and Jorja Fox ("Memento," 2000), with pop-ins from some of the other original cast members as well.

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