David Johnson, Arizona Cardinals Running Back
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
David Johnson is an NFL running back with the Arizona Cardinals. He was selected in the third round (86th overall) by Arizona in the 2015 NFL Draft.
Today we throw it back to October 2017 and our interview with David on Episode 45 of the podcast where we ask him how his faith grew coming into the league as a rookie.
You can listen to the entire interview with David here, or by searching his name and Sports Spectrum on Apple podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or everywhere podcasts are found.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrum's podcast. I, Jason Romano. Welcome, everyone, to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.6 | Today, we're going to throw it back to October 10th, 2017, in our conversation with Arizona |
| 0:30.6 | Cardinals running back David Johnson. |
| 0:33.5 | It was episode number 45 of the podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | David was selected in the third round of the 2015 |
| 0:40.9 | NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals, 86th overall. In his first two seasons, he rushed for over |
| 0:46.9 | 1,800 yards and 32 total touchdowns, was named first team all pro and selected to his first |
| 0:54.1 | pro bowl just in those first two seasons. |
| 0:57.9 | And then in 2017, he dislocated his wrist in the third quarter of the very first game of the NFL season. |
| 1:04.8 | And we were able to talk to David in the midst of that recovery from his wrist injury that kept him out for two to three months in 2017. |
| 1:16.1 | So take a listen to our conversation with David Johnson. |
| 1:19.6 | This is a portion of that conversation as we throw it back to October of 2017, episode 45 here on Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:33.5 | We're talking to David Johnson here. |
| 1:35.4 | Arizona Cardinals running back on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:38.7 | Now, David, your rookie year, you get to Arizona on the field, pretty good. |
| 1:43.0 | You have success right away. |
| 1:45.0 | Like I mentioned earlier, you scored 12 touchdowns. You play a key role. Your rookie season and you're in the NFC championship |
| 1:50.4 | game. But my question for you is more off the field. As a believer in Christ, what was life |
| 1:55.9 | like for you spiritually adapting into the NFL and sort of the rigors that come with professional football for |
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