A redemption story set in Deep South Alabama as a college athletic coach seeks to sign a red-hot prospect, “Signing Tony Raymond” glows with a bit of a Ted Lasso vibe.

Michael Mosley, who stars as the troubled scout Walt McFadden, calls it  “A family movie, disguised as a sports movie,” he said in a Zoom interview.

“Definitely, it’s a college football movie. But it’s mostly about friendship and family and we can all understand that.

“I’m trying to sign a guy who’s going to change my life; I want to change his life for the better. And I have to navigate all these personalities to try to get this guy.

“You could put that in any language: Someone makes someone’s life better, in order to make their life better.”

The Walt we first meet isn’t looking exactly like a winner.

“He’s about to be crushed,” Mosley conceded. “But he’s got fight in him. He’s not ready to give up. He wants to bump up and be a defense coordinator at a bigger school.

“Only right now he’s just coaching special teams where he’s up against the ropes. He’s down but not out. Yet.”

As for Walt’s marriage?

“According to Walt, everything is going fine,” Mosley, 47, said.  “But as you watch the movie you might discover that Walt’s marriage maybe isn’t as healthy as he thinks it is.”

Walt married the daughter of the school’s legendary head coach. Was this a union motivated by love — or by the practical hope this would give him an edge in getting ahead in college sports?

“Sometimes, it’s for all the reasons, all the above,” Mosley said. “Maybe he thinks he loved her. But she also was a great package. I don’t think it was solely an ambition type of marriage. I think he loves his wife.”

For the Iowa native, acting has been his passion for decades. He currently costars with Maggie Q in the hit Prime series “Ballard,” Michael Connelly’s spinoff from the long-running “Bosch.”

Mosley’s Ted Rawls is the officer assigned to oversee detective Renée Ballard’s work on cold cases.

How does he choose what he does?

“I’m always happy to try something different. When I started out, I was this indie kid with long hair, a moody hipster. Then, I don’t know, I’m playing the cop. Then a comedy comes along and I’m a goofball.

“I’ve always wanted to just play many different things and really treat my career as: I just want to explore it all.

“All of this is so much fun and it’s all so interesting — show business and all the disciplines of it. I’m just fascinated by it.

“It’s such a privilege to get to continue to play around in these spaces.”