C.J. Stroud Never Had A Doubt
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Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
You might not guess it from watching him play football, but for much of his life, the odds have not been in C.J. Stroud’s favor. He saw his father go to prison at age 13, and reportedly did so poorly on the S2 cognition test that many people expected him to fail in the NFL. Today, we look at how Stroud’s self-belief helped propel him past the obstacles in the path, and redefine what’s possible for a rookie quarterback as he powers a Houston Texans renaissance.
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| 0:33.0 | Zat Kiefer, you wrote recently about a part of CJ Stroud's life that not many people know about. |
| 0:46.5 | Can you tell us about the phone call that Stroud gets from time to time? |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, so picture this. NFL quarterback gets a phone call. the and it's tells him, you have a phone call from an inmate at Folsom State Prison. |
| 1:06.0 | And by now, C.J. Stroud knows the routine. |
| 1:09.0 | He clicks the number five, and he waits for a voice on the other end. And he hears that voice it's the voice that belongs to his father. |
| 1:18.0 | For a while we're talking almost six years |
| 1:21.0 | CJ would have just silenced this call, ignored it. |
| 1:24.0 | He wasn't ready to talk to his dad. |
| 1:25.8 | He was still hurt. |
| 1:26.8 | He was still bitter. |
| 1:28.3 | Coleridge Stroud, the third, his father, |
| 1:30.6 | has been in prison since he was 13. |
| 1:33.0 | You might not guess it from watching him play football, but for much of his life, the odds have not been in CJ Stroud's favor. |
| 1:52.0 | From seeing his father go to prison at age 13 |
| 1:55.4 | to doing so poorly on a football cognition test that many people expected him to |
| 2:01.1 | fail in the NFL, but instead he's redefining what's possible for a rookie |
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