It's great to have C.J. Stroud here on Sports Spectrum. Hi, C.J. How are you, sir? I'm doing

great. How are you? I'm doing well. It's great to see you. Great to talk to you. Sports

Spectrum is the intersection of sports and faith, keeping Jesus in a sports conversation. So let's

start there. Tell me about Christ and the importance of Jesus and who he is to C.J. Stroud right now. Yeah, man. First, I mean, how I was brought to

Christ was just, I grew up in a, in a faith-based home. You know, that was our foundation. And my

mother and father were very influential in our community. We had our own church and, you know,

just did a lot of things through Christ and before we can do anything else we wanted to serve.

And that's what I was really brought upon.

And in my life now, I've gone to know him personally after like being a kid, you know.

So he's my everything, you know, he's, uh, he's alpha,

he's Omega. Um, he's, um, humble at the same time. He, he shows me who he is when he needs to.

And, you know, he just keeps me really at a, at a point of my life where everything is going

crazy keeps me really focused. And it's a certain piece that I have when I, you know,

I'm on track and, you know, things like that. So, you know, he's my everything. And I'm a very

appreciative of just what he did on the cross for us and everything like that.

Where was that moment or time frame when that personal relationship began? Because like you said,

you went to church, but something happened where it became your relationship with God. When did that take place? Yeah, it was in college.

I was like really, I was really close to God when I was a kid, of course, like that childlike faith.

I thought I knew crash on my own. And when I got to high school, I had some things going on my

family where some family dynamics

changed. And, you know, I always asked God why and like, why me? Why is this happening?

And college came around. I had a teammate named Cameron, Bab, and Xavier Johnson, who asked me

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