Beavers

Drew Biber joined the Green Bay Packers in 2024. His surname is the German word for beaver, and that is as close as the NFL gets to the name. None of the league's 32 franchises is called the Beavers, and none goes by Biber. Anyone looking for a professional club under that name will find a player instead.

In American football, Beavers is a college nickname. It belongs to teams that a university fields, and the players on them are students. The best known is Oregon State University, which plays in NCAA Division I, the highest level of college football. Bemidji State University uses the same name in NCAA Division II, one division lower.

The two programmes share an animal and a spelling but play in different divisions, so they are not in the same competition. Oregon State's schedule is set by the standards of the top division. Bemidji State's is set by those of the second.

A Beavers shirt in the NFL would be a novelty. Biber's arrival in Green Bay in 2024 made the German word a roster entry for the first time, but he is a Packer, and the name on his shirt is his own.