You are getting lots of great ideas. I used a pattern titled ‘The Man Quilt’ from Craftsy. My husband approved of the pattern and he usually says ‘quilts are always made for women - you know, they are too phoophy for a man’. Son loved it and that’s fairly hard to do! I downloaded the pattern and it made up very quickly.
https://www.craftsy.com/quilting/patterns/the-man-quilt/141364