Melvin Gordon talks College Football Playoff, new shirt collaboration

3. Gordon on DraftKings and his nickname

Q: Talk a little bit about your collaboration with DraftKings and what we can be on the look out for moving forward.

Gordon: We have a collaboration together. They just dropped my shirt, which I think is super dope. They sent me some ideas of what I thought was cool to put out there, what I felt like resembled me a little bit and just gave a feel of me. We’ve been working together with some things and now it is in the DraftKings shop. I’m definitely excited about that — to give the fans a little taste of the “Flash.”

Q: Who came up with the nickname “Flash” and when did it start?

Gordon: It just kind of stuck, they started calling me that in college. It was more fans than anything, it just kind of went. When I got to the league, it just really took off and I changed my Twitter handle to Flash and [decided] to roll with it. Flash Gordon, my name’s Gordon, I play for the Chargers, the logo is a bolt, it just seemed to work out.