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Top 25 US Sports Influencers

Sports is one of the most engaged corners of US Instagram, where a single highlight or trick clip can pull millions of views in a day.

This list mixes pro athletes like a World Series catcher and Olympic medalists with full-time creators who post skits, drills, trick shots, and gym breakdowns.

What ties the strongest accounts together is a real athletic identity behind the camera, which is exactly why their audiences react this hard.

Denis GolubevDenis Golubev4 min readLast updated: Jun 16, 2026

How this list was built

A public shortlist from the ClickAnalytic creator database

ClickAnalytic tracks 400M+ creator profiles. We found 21,168 profiles matching this ranking and selected 25 for the public shortlist; inside the platform you can search the full set, compare audience quality and unlock verified contacts.

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The ranking

US sports creators engage 3.3x more than average

We track 21,168 US sports creators on Instagram. The 25 shown here are ranked by follower reach, engagement, and audience quality, and their audiences engage about 3.3x more per post than a typical account of the same size and read as about 80% real on average.

Kickball Dad
#1
kickballdad
Kickball DadMega
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1.2M
Followers
2.89%
Engagement rate
554.0K
Avg views
$12.2K+
Typical $/post

It’s all about makin’ plays. 📹 @alyssacronin13 on TikTok 📧

Audience location
US77.0%
Audience gender
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20.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Family-sport comedy reach. Kickball Dad turns backyard plays into family-friendly sports comedy and reaches 1.2M followers with steady engagement near 2.9%. Best for game-day food, youth-sports, and family brands that want warm, broad reach rather than a hard sell.

Salvador Perez
#2
salvadorp13
Salvador PerezMega
Get emailView full profile
1.1M
Followers
1.34%
Engagement rate
445.8K
Avg views
$12.2K+
Typical $/post

The real account of Salvador Perez "El Niño." 👑 Catcher of The KC Royals

Audience location
US57.0%
Audience gender
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25.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: MLB athlete credibility. Salvador Perez is a real KC Royals catcher and World Series champion, so this account carries genuine on-field credibility. Best for baseball gear, apparel, and recovery brands that need an active pro rather than a content creator.

Elijah Andrews
#3
woahhelijah
Elijah AndrewsMega
Get emailView full profile
1.1M
Followers
8.73%
Engagement rate
430.0K
Avg views
$12.2K+
Typical $/post

God’s Child 1M+ On TikTok

Audience location
US46.0%
Audience gender
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17.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: High-energy sports comedy. Elijah Andrews posts high-energy sports and lifestyle content and engages at 8.7%, well above typical for an account over 1M. Strong for youth-facing apparel and snack brands that want fast, viral-leaning reach.

Luc Menard
#4
beautifulsoulsinnyc
Luc MenardMega
Get emailView full profile
1.0M
Followers
6.63%
Engagement rate
1.9M
Avg views
$12.2K+
Typical $/post

God 🙏🏿 Haiti 🇭🇹 NYC📍 What I do is not easy, I just make it look easy Soccer Trickshots ⚽️ & Street photographer 📸 📧

Audience location
US37.0%
Audience gender
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27.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Soccer trick-shot content. Luc Menard builds his feed on soccer trick shots and NYC street photography, engaging at 6.6% at 1M followers. A clear fit for football boots, ball brands, and street-style apparel that want skill-led, shareable clips.

Tara & Hunter Woodhall
#5
thewoodhalls
Tara & Hunter WoodhallMega
Get emailView full profile
967.6K
Followers
4.59%
Engagement rate
327.2K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

these are the moments 🥇🥇 @nike x @cadence

Audience location
US90.0%
Audience gender
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17.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Olympic track-and-field campaigns. Tara and Hunter Woodhall are an Olympic track-and-field couple already tied to Nike, posting medal moments and training. Best for footwear, nutrition, and recovery brands that want real Olympic credibility and a relationship angle.

Frederick“Flips” Richard
#6
frederickflips
Frederick“Flips” RichardMega
Get emailView full profile
888.8K
Followers
5.43%
Engagement rate
840.6K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

Olympic Medalist🏅🇺🇸 @usagym College Athlete @umichgym Business

Audience location
US54.0%
Audience gender
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28.0%
Poor: high risk
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Olympic gymnastics authority. Frederick Richard is an Olympic gymnastics medalist and college athlete posting skills and training at 5.4% engagement. Strong for gymnastics gear, apparel, and supplement brands that need a current, decorated athlete.

Mike Dunn
#7
seemikedunn
Mike DunnMega
Get emailView full profile
809.7K
Followers
1.38%
Engagement rate
404.5K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

I Make Shooting Simple 🏀 NJ

Audience location
US45.0%
Audience gender
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20.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Basketball shooting coaching. Mike Dunn teaches shooting mechanics with a simple, repeatable format aimed at hoopers and parents. Best for training aids, basketballs, and youth-basketball brands that want demonstrated coaching over highlights.

SportsBall
#8
_sportsball
SportsBallMega
Get emailView full profile
762.6K
Followers
3.26%
Engagement rate
583.4K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

Sports Education with Data 📈

Audience location
US68.0%
Audience gender
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2.0%
Good: clean audience
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Data-led sports education. SportsBall explains sport through data and charts, and its audience reads as about 98% real, the cleanest signal on this list. A fit for analytics tools, fantasy platforms, and brands that want an informed, high-trust audience.

Rob Friedman
#9
pitchingninja
Rob FriedmanMega
Get emailView full profile
707.7K
Followers
1.49%
Engagement rate
461.1K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

Home of PitchingNinja on IG. MLB Analyst. FanDuel Pitching Guru @fdsportsbook X: @pitchingninja Business

Audience location
US79.0%
Audience gender
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16.0%
Average: some noise
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Baseball analysis and pitching. Rob Friedman is the PitchingNinja, a widely followed MLB analyst whose feed lives on pitch breakdowns. Best for baseball training tech, sportsbooks, and equipment brands targeting a serious, baseball-literate audience.

Mac Boucher
#10
macbouchergolf
Mac BoucherMega
Get emailView full profile
698.3K
Followers
1.46%
Engagement rate
129.3K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post

🇨🇦•@primogolfapparel MAC15•@adidasgolf•@taylormade_ca•@bmwcanada•@fujikuragolf•@bushnellgolf @foresightsports•@vigor_eyewear•@leftygolfgang

Audience location
US57.0%
Audience gender
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10.0%
Good: clean audience
fake followers / suspicious accounts

Best for: Golf gear placements. Mac Boucher is a golf creator who already tags clubs, apparel, and eyewear brands, with about 90% real audience. A natural match for golf equipment, apparel, and lifestyle brands wanting native, gear-forward placements.

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Ian Gunther | Daily Sports
#11
iandgunther
Ian Gunther | Daily SportsMega
Get emailView full profile
671.4K
Followers
4.93%
Engagement rate
926.8K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 51.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 20.0%Average: some noise

Gymnastics & Sports 🤸‍♂️ 2 Mil on YouTube ❤️ 4X NCAA Champion @ Stanford 🏆 @stuq.apparel Business

Best for: Gymnastics and sport skills.

Ian Gunther is a four-time NCAA gymnastics champion posting skills and sport content at 4.9% engagement. Strong for gymnastics, apparel, and training brands that want a credentialed athlete with cross-platform reach.

Jordan Wallace
#12
jdub
Jordan WallaceMega
Get emailView full profile
627.7K
Followers
1.69%
Engagement rate
147.9K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 72.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 23.0%Average: some noise

Carve Your Own Path 👓

Best for: Eyewear and lifestyle reach.

Jordan Wallace runs a sports-and-lifestyle feed with a clear personal brand and steady mid-size reach. A fit for eyewear, apparel, and lifestyle brands that want a broad sports-leaning audience without a single-sport niche.

Annie Agar
#13
annieagar5
Annie AgarMega
Get emailView full profile
601.9K
Followers
2.66%
Engagement rate
678.8K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 91.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 20.0%Average: some noise

NFL content creator 1.1M tiktok I put teams in uncomfortable meetings🏈 for business

Best for: NFL comedy and parody.

Annie Agar is an NFL content creator known for team-meeting parody skits, reaching 600K on Instagram and over 1M on TikTok. Best for game-day, fantasy, and fan-facing brands that want sharp, recurring NFL comedy.

Justin Fletcher
#14
jfletch07
Justin FletcherMega
Get emailView full profile
579.5K
Followers
3.25%
Engagement rate
556.6K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 94.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 8.0%Good: clean audience

•Helping parents grow their player’s confidence ⚾️🥎•Weekly drills & fun with Waylon & Steely😎•Subscribe for swing analysis!•Owner of @oxwoodbatco

Best for: Youth baseball and softball.

Justin Fletcher coaches youth baseball and softball with weekly drills and owns a bat company, with about 92% real audience. Strong for youth-sports, training, and equipment brands that want a parent-and-player audience.

Soufiane Bernoukh
#15
soufs_videos
Soufiane BernoukhMega
Get emailView full profile
561.6K
Followers
4.92%
Engagement rate
98.0K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 60.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 25.0%Poor: high risk

When The Prayers Go Up, The Blessings Come Down! @halalwrist ™️ Business

Best for: Skills and trick content.

Soufiane Bernoukh posts skills and trick-style sports videos at 4.9% engagement to a large following. A fit for apparel, accessory, and game brands that want energetic, performance-led content over straight reviews.

Trea Turner
#16
tvturner
Trea TurnerMega
Get emailView full profile
537.6K
Followers
3.40%
Engagement rate
116.9K
Avg views
$5.9K-12.2K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 89.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 19.0%Average: some noise

Raised in Florida| NC State Baseball Alum| Philadelphia Phillies

Best for: MLB athlete partnerships.

Trea Turner is a real Philadelphia Phillies infielder, so this account brings active-pro credibility to baseball campaigns. Best for equipment, apparel, and recovery brands that need a current MLB athlete rather than a creator.

Luke Brooks
#17
lukebrooksofficial
Luke BrooksMacro
Get emailView full profile
499.1K
Followers
1.20%
Engagement rate
16.1K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 39.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 24.0%Average: some noise

Fitness. Footy. Food. Fotography. 👑 Subscribe for more content 📍Melbourne, AUS

Best for: Fitness and football lifestyle.

Luke Brooks blends fitness, football, and lifestyle content for a broad sports audience that reads as US-based here. A fit for apparel, fitness, and lifestyle brands wanting an all-rounder rather than a single-sport specialist.

K SHOWTIME
#18
k_showtime
K SHOWTIMEMacro
Get emailView full profile
496.1K
Followers
3.37%
Engagement rate
413.9K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 66.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

@defensedemitour business/bookings:

Best for: Basketball performance content.

K SHOWTIME builds content around basketball defense and on-court performance, engaging at 3.4%. Best for basketball gear, apparel, and training brands that want energetic, skills-driven content with a hooper audience.

DLew
#19
dlewis.hoops
DLewMacro
Get emailView full profile
493.2K
Followers
2.69%
Engagement rate
253.2K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 79.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 23.0%Average: some noise

John 3:16 Twitch: DLew Inquiries: Full MK 1v1 Vid

Best for: Basketball and gaming crossover.

DLew pairs basketball content with a Twitch streaming presence, reaching a younger hoops-and-gaming audience. A fit for basketball apparel, energy, and gaming-adjacent brands comfortable with a crossover creator.

Brandon Carney
#20
benchwarmerbran
Brandon CarneyMacro
Get emailView full profile
486.9K
Followers
4.41%
Engagement rate
449.7K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 90.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 14.0%Good: clean audience

Sports skit guy Also on TikTok, YouTube, & Facebook Host of the @brancoverage Podcast

Best for: Sports skit campaigns.

Brandon Carney is a full-time sports-skit creator and podcast host posting at 4.4% engagement with about 86% real audience. Strong for fan-facing brands that want personality-led skits across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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Dylan Novak
#21
itsdylannovak
Dylan NovakMacro
Get emailView full profile
465.0K
Followers
3.13%
Engagement rate
67.1K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 75.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 16.0%Average: some noise

1M+ followers across platforms business inquires✉️

Best for: Cross-platform sports reach.

Dylan Novak is a sports creator with over 1M followers across platforms and a clean 84% real audience on Instagram. A fit for apparel and lifestyle brands that want dependable, broad sports reach with solid audience quality.

Ben Kruper
#22
benkruper_golf
Ben KruperMacro
Get emailView full profile
445.9K
Followers
2.31%
Engagement rate
269.0K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 56.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 15.0%Average: some noise

Pause King.•@Wilsongolf•@Rhoback•@Labgolfputters Code Ben10 For Business Inquiries👇

Best for: Golf brand collaborations.

Ben Kruper is a golf creator who already partners with club, apparel, and putter brands and runs a discount code, with about 85% real audience. A clear match for golf equipment and apparel placements that fit his existing feed.

Coach Jackie J
#23
jcubedhax
Coach Jackie JMacro
Get emailView full profile
440.4K
Followers
3.07%
Engagement rate
191.0K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 61.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 14.0%Good: clean audience

I love women’s sports.

Best for: Women's sports campaigns.

Coach Jackie J centers content on women's sports and engages at 3.1% with about 86% real audience. Best for brands building women's-sports campaigns that want an authentic, community-rooted voice rather than a mainstream highlight page.

Katie Nolan
#24
natiekolan
Katie NolanMacro
Get emailView full profile
422.4K
Followers
1.25%
Engagement rate
145.1K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 85.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 22.0%Average: some noise

I put myself out there for a living. new episodes of @casualsthepodcast every tues + thurs ‘fan service’ live at noon ET daily on @maddogsportsradio

Best for: Sports-media personality reach.

Katie Nolan is an established sports broadcaster and podcaster with a loyal, conversation-driven audience. A fit for media, podcast, and fan-facing brands that want a recognised personality rather than a highlights account.

Soy Sauce
#25
soysaucesports
Soy SauceMacro
Get emailView full profile
395.3K
Followers
1.96%
Engagement rate
253.9K
Avg views
$2.6K-5.7K
Typical $/post
Audience location: US 89.0%fake followers / suspicious accounts: 20.0%Average: some noise

Respectful l The Smash League Commissioner Friendly Troll 🧌 @therespectreport - Host 📩 @withoutacuepodcast 2025

Best for: Esports and gaming-sport fans.

Soy Sauce is a Smash community personality and podcast host reaching a dedicated competitive-gaming audience. Best for esports, gaming-gear, and youth brands that want a creator embedded in a specific competitive scene.

Niche analytics

Who's on this list

These are working US sports creators on Instagram, and the list splits cleanly into two groups. One half is genuine athletes posting from inside their sport: an MLB catcher, a Phillies infielder, an Olympic gymnast, and a track-and-field couple who post training, competition, and behind-the-scenes moments. The other half is full-time sports creators whose whole feed is the content itself: comedy skits, trick shots, shooting and pitching drills, NFL parody, and gymnastics breakdowns.

That mix is the useful part when you read the brand-fit and methodology blocks below. An Olympic athlete and a sports-skit creator can reach overlapping fan audiences in very different registers, and several creators here are coaches or instructors first, which gives part of this list real authority on technique rather than entertainment alone.

68%
avg US sports audience
3.3%
avg engagement rate
81%
avg real audience
$5.9K-12.2K
estimated price per post

ClickAnalytic pricing model, how we worked this out

What they post
Trick shots and skills clipsCoaching and drillsComedy skits and parodyTraining and competitionSport breakdowns and analysisGear and apparel reveals
Who they are

Pro and Olympic athletes

Active competitors posting from inside their sport, like Salvador Perez, Trea Turner, and Frederick Richard.

Trick-shot and skills creators

Soccer freestylers and shot-makers built around one repeatable, shareable skill.

Coaches and instructors

Shooting, pitching, and hitting coaches who teach technique alongside the entertainment.

Sports comedy and skits

Creators who turn fandom into parody, voiceovers, and recurring characters.

Gymnastics and combat creators

NCAA champions and wrestling creators reaching loyal, sport-specific audiences.

Women's sports voices

Creators and broadcasters whose content centers women's leagues and athletes.

Creator sizes

Nano

Emerging creators · 1K-10K

0 in this list

Micro

High-efficiency creators · 10K-50K

0 in this list

Mid + Macro

Scale creators · 50K-500K

9 in this list

Mega

Celebrity-level creators · 500K+

16 in this list

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Brand fit

Best brand fits for US sports influencers

Sports creators fit a tighter band of categories than general lifestyle accounts. Read these as inferred fits from bios and content, not past deals.

Sports equipment, apparel and footwear
Best fit

The core fit. Athletes and skills creators already wear and tag gear in feed, so cleats, bats, clubs, and apparel place natively.

Sports nutrition, supplements and recovery
Strong

Pro and Olympic athletes here lend credibility to protein, hydration, and recovery messaging tied to real training.

Sportsbooks, fantasy and sports betting
Strong

Several analysts and comedy creators already work with sportsbooks; a regulated, age-gated fit for the right accounts.

Coaching tools, training tech and youth sports
Good

Shooting, pitching, and hitting coaches make training aids, swing analysers, and youth-sports brands an easy match.

Snacks, drinks and game-day brands
Niche

Fan-facing comedy and highlight-style creators reach broad, game-day audiences primed for food and beverage pushes.

Recommendations are inferred from creator bios and content themes, not invented sponsorship history.

Proprietary data

The US sports creator economy in numbers

Sports is one of the most active fan audiences on US Instagram, and engagement here holds up well against the platform. Across the 5.9M Instagram creators in ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026 (data: December 2025), only 39% clear a 75%-real-audience bar and 28.8% have a prior brand deal. The 25 shown here sit toward the top of that pool, with audiences that read as about 80% real on average.

3.3x
Engagement vs platform average
81%
Average real audience
17.0M
Combined reach of the shortlist
Engagement-rate distribution
% of creators above each threshold
100.0%
Above 1%
52.0%
Above 3%
8.0%
Above 6%
Reach - average reel views
% of creators above each views threshold
96.0%Over 50k
88.0%Over 100k
68.0%Over 250k
Audience quality
share of real, credible followers
81.0%mostly real audience
Good

Audience age and gender splits are available per creator inside ClickAnalytic, but are not published on this page.

Go beyond this US shortlist

This page shows a hand-vetted preview. Inside ClickAnalytic you can search and filter all 21,168 sports influencers in the United States, with contact emails and full audience data.

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Across the 25 US sports creators shown here, audiences engage about 3.3 times more per post than a typical Instagram account of the same size, and their followers read as about 80% real on average. We track 21,168 US sports creators in total. For context, across all US Instagram creators in ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026 (data: December 2025), only 39% clear a 75%-real-audience bar, so this shortlist sits in the top of that pool.

ClickAnalytic creator database (live) ·

Many of these creators are active or former athletes posting from inside their sport, including a World Series catcher, a current Phillies infielder, Olympic medalists in gymnastics and track and field, and NCAA champions, which gives a large part of this list genuine competitive credibility rather than highlights alone.

The rest are full-time sports creators built around one repeatable hook: trick shots, shooting and pitching drills, NFL parody, or sport-by-the-data breakdowns. Several already coach, own gear companies, or partner with equipment brands, a strong signal that their audiences act on what these accounts recommend.

Our verdict

This shortlist is best used as a fast starting point for sports-brand campaigns that need real reach with a genuinely engaged fan audience. Start with the pro and Olympic athletes when credibility inside a sport matters most, the trick-shot and skills creators when you want broad, shareable reach, and the coaches when a campaign needs demonstrated technique rather than raw views.

The 25 shown are a hand-checked preview of the 21,168 US sports creators we track on Instagram. Across the national Instagram pool, 39% list a public email (Creator Economy Report 2026), so direct outreach at scale is realistic. Open the full database to filter the rest by sport, audience location, real-follower score, and verified contact.

Methodology

How we selected these creators

How we picked this shortlist.

Eligibility: US sports creators on Instagram whose audience reads as meaningfully US-based. We kept individual athletes and creator-led sports accounts and removed team, league, network, and sports-media brand pages.

The topic auto-classifier and a manual spot-check together dropped the non-creator accounts (leagues, highlight pages, and media brands like Bleacher Report and Jomboy Media) from the candidate pool before ranking.

Data source: the live ClickAnalytic creator database, which tracks 21,168 US sports creators on Instagram.

Ranking signals: follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality (the share of followers that read as real).

Filters: active accounts posting within the last 30 days, with a real-audience floor and engagement floor applied before ranking.

Scope: the 25 creators shown are a hand-checked preview. Every metric on this page describes that shortlist unless it is explicitly labelled as the full tracked slice or a Creator Economy Report benchmark.

Context benchmarks come from ClickAnalytic's Creator Economy Report 2026, a study of 23.6M creators (data: December 2025). Updated monthly.

The figures above are a snapshot pulled on June 16, 2026, not a live feed.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything brands ask before shortlisting US sports creators.

How were these US sports influencers chosen and ranked?

We pulled US sports creators on Instagram from ClickAnalytic's database, kept individual athletes and creator-led accounts, removed team, league, and sports-media brand pages, then ranked the top 25 on follower reach, engagement rate, and audience quality. The 25 shown are a hand-checked preview of 21,168 tracked US sports creators.

Is this list only Instagram sports accounts?

Yes. Every creator here is ranked on their Instagram presence and US-based audience. Many also post on TikTok or YouTube, often with larger followings there, but the metrics on this page describe Instagram.

Why aren't teams, leagues, or sports media on this list?

The intent is sports creators and athletes, not organizations. We removed team and league accounts, TV networks, and sports-media brands such as Bleacher Report, CBS Sports, and Jomboy Media so the list stays focused on individual people you can actually brief for a campaign.

How do you measure whether a sports account's audience is real?

Each account gets an audience-quality score, the share of followers that read as genuine rather than bots or inactive accounts. Across the 25 shown, audiences read as about 80% real on average; nationally, only 39% of US Instagram creators clear a 75%-real-audience bar (Creator Economy Report 2026).

Which brands suit US sports influencers best?

Sports equipment, apparel, and footwear are the core fit, followed by nutrition and recovery, sportsbooks and fantasy, coaching tools and youth sports, and game-day food and drink. Pro and Olympic athletes suit credibility-led campaigns; comedy and trick-shot creators suit broad reach. These are inferred from bios and content, not past deals.

How do I find and contact the other US sports creators you track?

Open ClickAnalytic to search all 21,168 US sports creators on Instagram and filter by sport, audience location, real-follower score, follower size, and verified contact email. Across the national pool, 39% list a public email (Creator Economy Report 2026), so outreach at scale is realistic.

How we know this

Where the numbers on this page come from.

ClickAnalytic indexes 400M+ creator accounts across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The figures in this ranking come from querying that database, cross-referenced with the Creator Economy Report 2026; card figures reflect the snapshot date shown on this page.

400M+ creator databaseThe source every stat is pulled fromCreator Economy Report 2026Our benchmarks for engagement, pricing and real audienceAudience quality scoringHow we measure real versus fake followersCreator pricing modelHow the estimated price per post is calculated

Photos and figures reflect the data snapshot date and may differ from the current profiles.

Denis Golubev

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Denis Golubev

Marketer at ClickAnalytic, turning live data on 400M+ creators into rankings brands can actually act on.

Last updated Jun 16, 20264 min read
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