It's titled: "Pepsi's Unlikely Spokesperson Marshawn Lynch."

“When Pepsi approached me about being their spokesman, I said, ‘I don’t know. I don’t really like to speak,’” the commercial starts. “So they said—‘Well, Pepsi’s all about trying something new. Give it a shot.’”

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The commercial ends with Lynch.

"Speechmode, boss," he says, kicking back.

Lynch recently appeared in a Skittles commercial – on a home-shopping television channel.

>> Watch Lynch selling Skittles on EVINE Live

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