Austin Carr, New Orleans Saints Wide Receiver
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Episode 295
Austin Carr was a former walk-on at Northwestern University where he earned a scholarship and eventually became a starting wide receiver in his junior year. Two years later, he would sign with the New England Patriots after going undrafted in 2017.
After shining in the 2017 preseason with the Patriots, Carr was waived in the final cuts on September 2. A day later, he was claimed off waivers by the New Orleans Saints, where he has remained.
In 2018, he played in 14 games, caught 9 passes and also had his first 2 NFL touchdown receptions against Philadelphia and on Thanksgiving against Atlanta.
In November 2015, after registering with Be The Match two and a half years earlier, Carr was contacted that he may be a potential match to donate peripheral blood stem cells. Through a five hour procedure, he was able to donate his stem cells via a blood transfusion, which ultimately saved the life of the recipient, a retired locomotive engineer for the Union-Pacific railroad who had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
On this episode of the podcast, we hear how Austin made it from walk-on receiver at Northwestern to catching touchdowns from Drew Brees. He also shares how his faith has played a role in his journey, including the life-altering decision he made to donate stem cells and save the life of a retired locomotive engineer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Austin Carr from the New Orleans Saints |
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| 1:26.5 | Today in the podcast, we welcome New Orleans Saints |
| 1:29.0 | wide receiver Austin Carr. Austin was signed by the Saints after being released by the New |
| 1:36.2 | England Patriots. He went undrafted out of Northwestern in 2017, born on Christmas Day. We should |
| 1:43.9 | have talked about that, but I didn't ask him about that, |
| 1:46.6 | just being born on Christmas and kind of getting the shaft, if you will, of presents as a kid |
| 1:52.9 | having a birthday and Christmas Day on the same day. In 2018, he saw his most extensive action |
| 2:00.1 | in his NFL career, his very early NFL career, catching nine balls from Drew Brees, scoring two touchdowns and helping the Saints to the NFC championship game and a very difficult loss at the end there to the Los Angeles Rams. |
| 2:15.9 | And Austin also has a very unique story during his time at Northwestern, where he was able |
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