Alterraun Verner: Former NFL Defensive Back
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 399
Alterraun Verner played eight seasons in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins. He selected in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft (104th overall) by the Titans and played four seasons in Nashville before departing as a free agent in 2014 to play with Tampa.
The 2013 Pro Bowler announced his retirement from the NFL on March 18, 2019 and signed a one day contract to retire as a Titan on April 16, 2019.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Alterraun about the decision to retire at the age of 30, his story of coming to faith watching a Kirk Cameron movie, his NFL Draft Day memory, lessons from his father and the unique direction he's moving in post-NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
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| 1:12.2 | Really excited to have Alteron Werner, the former Pro Bowl NFL defensive back to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:20.7 | Altaron played his college ball at UCLA and was selected in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL draft, number 104 overall, by the Tennessee |
| 1:30.6 | Titans. He played his first four years in Tennessee from 2010 to 2013 and then signed a |
| 1:37.6 | free agent deal to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2014 to 2016, finished up with the Miami Dolphins in 2017, sat out last year, |
| 1:49.4 | and then in March of 2019, announced his retirement from the NFL at the age of 30. |
| 1:57.6 | And it's weird, I tell him on the podcast, retiring at 30 just doesn't sound right. So I think it's more like |
| 2:03.7 | pivoting from one role, from one career to another. And that's exactly what Alteron Werner is |
| 2:10.5 | doing. This guy, wait till you hear the job that he's in now. You don't hear this job from NFL players going from retiring and playing |
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