David Johnson, Arizona Cardinals Running Back - Episode 45
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
David Johnson is a running back with the Arizona Cardinals. He was selected in the 3rd round (86th overall) by Arizona in the 2015 NFL Draft.
In his first two seasons, he's rushed for over 1,800 yards, 32 total touchdowns, and in 2015 was named 1st-team All-Pro and selected to his first Pro Bowl.
Johnson dislocated his wrist in the 3rd quarter of the first game of the 2017 NFL season. He's expected to be out 2-3 months and possibly return at the end of the year.
Spending four seasons at Northern Iowa, Johnson rushed for over 4,600 yards and had 63 total touchdowns setting numerous records including career rushing yards, career rushing touchdowns, and career all-purpose yards.
On this episode of the podcast, David Johnson shares how he's dealing with a broken wrist, whether he questioned God when he was injured, how he came to faith in Christ, becoming a Dad and what his biggest spiritual struggle is right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:09.8 | collide. |
| 0:10.9 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:13.4 | This is episode number 45 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome everyone to the show. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Jason Romano. |
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| 1:01.2 | We love to hear from you and check out all the great content that we're producing, both with |
| 1:05.3 | the magazine, the podcast, and on the web. Today's guest is Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson. Now, for some of you |
| 1:12.9 | fans out there who play fantasy football, you may have taken David right at the top of your draft. |
| 1:18.1 | He was the consensus number one overall pick in most fantasy football leagues, and we talked to |
| 1:23.9 | David about that. And interestingly enough, he doesn't really play fantasy football and |
| 1:28.9 | really had no concept or idea of that until this year when he basically became everybody's number |
| 1:34.5 | one pick. And then week one came along of the 2017 season. And as David is going down the |
| 1:41.0 | sidelines, about to catch a pass from carson palmer his quarterback he gets |
| 1:44.9 | nailed in the wrist and dislocates it and has surgery and ESPN and other media outlets are |
| 1:51.4 | announcing that he's out for two to three months and he's basically going to miss the majority of the |
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