Tony Khan wins the charity auction for his NFL Draft neck brace

AEW owner, president & head of creative Tony Khan was the talk of the NFL Draft this year. Mostly, that was because he worked his job with the Jacksonville Jaguars while wearing a neck brace to sell The Young Bucks’ attack on him during the ongoing power struggle angle happening in AEW.

That was what caught NFL Network’s Rich Eisen’s eye. Eisen seemed to bring up TK and his neck brace every chance he got during April’s Draft. Khan eventually sent the broadcaster a text saying he would donate the brace so Eisen could auction it off for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity he partners with every year for his “Run Rich Run” fundraiser.

We hadn’t heard much about it since, but we got an update today (May 29) when Khan was a guest on The Rich Eisen Show to promote Dynamite in Los Angeles this evening. The AEW head honcho called off the auction, instead making his own $100,000 donation to St. Jude. The neck brace “auction” takes place at ~4:50 if this clip.

The brace will remain on Eisen’s set, protecting the neck of a cowboy from Deadwood.

Good stuff.