Cory Procter tells Bill Parcells stories, talks private Equity success & grunge band vibes
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of NFL Players: Second Acts, Peanut and Roman sit down with former offensive lineman Cory Procter, who shares the unexpected turns his life has taken since leaving the field. Cory dives into his “Welcome to the NFL” moment and recalls battling Peanut in what would be his final NFL game. Cory also shares stories of playing for the legendary head coach Bill Parcells. He then opens up about the knee injury that ultimately ended his career. Later, Cory describes how he’s thriving in private equity, and how his networking mindset and social media have helped him find success in his second act. Plus, Cory shares his personal Mount Rushmore, and the candid moments that reveal who he is beyond the pads.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.5 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. |
| 0:16.2 | And with me, as always, this is my guy, Roman. |
| 0:19.5 | Harper. |
| 0:19.9 | You like the shirt. |
| 1:11.0 | The shirt. Yeah, you like it. At the end of the day, I'm really looking forward to our next guest. He's been so successful on and off the field, a unique path to get to where he is today, which is what I'm really, really enthused to hear and talk about because this is what we do. We come here to hear about all of the former players or are involved with the NFL about their second act. Go ahead, Peanut, introduce who we have. The heart and pride and soul of Montana played four years in the league. Now he's working in finance. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pod. Mr. Corey Proctor! Proctor! Come on, man. That's a good intro. I like that. Yeah. It's good. Well, Proctor reminds me of, I'm a fan of like the 80s movies, the old school, and you remember Police Academy? Yes. Proctor! Captain Harris. I got that a lot. Yeah, those were some great movies too. Proctor. Those and college, you bring back, that's college stuff. You bring the, the heart and pride or whatever. Justin Green played at Baltimore as our old fullback. He used to use, used to master of puppets from Metallica. And instead of master, he'd be like, Proctor, Proctor. It's like all that old stuff. Yeah. You've got memories, man. Yeah, so it's a great memory. |
| 1:29.8 | So. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah. he'd be like proctor proctor it's like all that old stuff yeah memories man yeah so it's a great |
| 1:29.4 | memory so yeah |
| 1:30.3 | clearly you are a lot smaller now |
| 1:33.6 | today than when you were playing |
| 1:35.8 | don't say it like that well |
| 1:37.4 | you're healthy smaller now |
| 1:39.5 | I mean like I walked in |
| 1:41.1 | you guys are still looking like you could do some stuff |
| 1:43.2 | absolutely we get jacked every time we see each other. We just, we all about the weight room. Push-ups all day long. Yeah, we have been on trips together where we just run through decks of cards and just whatever the card shows. You still do that workout? Yeah. I don't do that workout anymore. Absolutely. That's the, that's the DB wide receiver workout for sure |
| 2:01.8 | yeah all day long yeah right before I go to the beach yeah exactly I mean that's why |
| 2:05.6 | you guys look better so what it what was your playing weight 3.05 305 and what are you |
| 2:09.7 | now 245 and how do you knees feel my knees oh man I crack everywhere I'm like my back |
| 2:17.1 | I mean here you pop your whole body pops when you're walking around. Yeah. My shoulder hurts. My back hurts. I mean, I got it all. But I still stay active. I want to be strong. Yeah. Right. Want to be around for my babies. You look good. So I appreciate it. Yeah. How long after did it take it to lose it all? It took a while. Look, Fat Boy took over afterwards, okay? |
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