Eliel Swinton (born March 27, 1975) is an American actor and former professional American football player best known for playing the running back Wendell Brown in the 1999 teen sport film Varsity Blues. He was nationally ranked as a high school football player at Montclair Prep and then played his college football at Stanford University. He signed on as an undrafted free agent to play with the Kansas City Chiefs, but his playing days were cut short by injury and he moved back to California to do production assistant work.