49ers tight end Jordan Matthews on changing positions, injuries and trusting God's plan
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Matthews is an NFL tight end with the San Francisco 49ers. He was originally drafted as a wide receiver by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft. Over his nine year career, he has spent time with the Eagles, Bills, Patriots and now the 49ers.
In college, Matthews attended Vanderbilt University, where he had 262 receptions for 3,759 yards and 24 touchdowns, setting many school records.
Today on the podcast, Jordan joins Jade McCarthy and Jason Romano to discuss his transition to the tight end position, suffering a torn ACL at training camp in August 2022, reminding trustworthy to God's plan after the injury and his desire to rehab and continue playing football.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends Operation Christmas Child. |
| 0:06.9 | They're a project of the Christian International Relief Organization Samaritan's Purse, |
| 0:11.4 | the world's largest Christmas project of its kind. |
| 0:15.0 | I love Operation Christmas Child, and their mission is to demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to children in |
| 0:22.7 | need around the world and to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Delivered into the hands of |
| 0:28.0 | children through local churches, every shoebox gift is an opportunity to share about Christ and |
| 0:34.4 | God's love. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than 198 million |
| 0:43.2 | gift-filled shoeboxes to children in 170 countries and territories. |
| 0:48.0 | And this year, they hope to collect enough shoebox gifts to reach an additional 11 million |
| 0:53.6 | children. |
| 0:54.3 | You and I can join in and be a part of this amazing mission with Operation Christmas |
| 0:59.9 | Child. |
| 1:00.9 | You can do it by packing a shoebox or actually building a shoebox with gifts online. |
| 1:06.3 | Anyone can do it, families, churches, students, and groups. |
| 1:10.2 | And during the national collection week |
| 1:12.5 | november 14th through the 21st shoeboxes will be collected across the country at nearly 5,000 drop-off |
| 1:20.8 | locations now this is a milestone year as operation christmas child expects to collect and celebrate |
| 1:27.1 | its 200 millionth gift-filled |
| 1:30.0 | shoebox since it all started back in 1993. You can be a part of it right now by going to the website |
| 1:36.6 | Samaritansperse.org slash OCC. Samaritansperse.org slash OCC, Operation Christmas Child. |
| 1:46.2 | You can learn how to pack a shoebox or build one online. |
| 1:50.0 | Again, samaritansperst.org slash OCC. |
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