David Pollack - College Football HOF'er on God as a sustainer, his new book and the 2026 NFL Draft
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
College Football HOF'er and former ESPN CFB analyst David Pollack joins Matt on the show to provide an update on his wife's brain cancer battle, trusting God in the storms of life, his new book and the 2026 NFL Draft.
David's new book Every Day Counts released April 7, 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I don't play for the fame, I play for the king |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, every step on the field let the heavens ring |
| 0:07.0 | Got Jesus in my heart so I run with a purpose |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this is sports spectrum |
| 0:13.0 | Faith on the surface, uh, I don't play for the crowd, I play for the king |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, every rap, every drill I give every day from the locker room prayers to the lights that gleam. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We raise his name, uh, welcome to the team, huh, uh, uh, uh, here's your host. |
| 0:31.6 | Former NFL Provo running back in Chicago Bears legend. |
| 0:35.6 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, uh, y'all? Sports Spectrum. It's Matt Forte here. My guy, Jason Romano. And Jason, we got on today. A guy who we most recently spoke to last year, but we got him on again, David Pollock. David, welcome to Sports Spectrum again. Happy to see you, man. |
| 0:54.4 | How you doing? Appreciate you guys having me back, man. I didn't know if I'd make the list again. So thank y'all for having me. Yeah, with our guy Ben Watson being a dog too, you know, you're always going to be on the list. So that's a must. Good old Ben. Ben, Ben is a stud, man. Me and Ben had some wars back in the day. |
| 1:13.0 | Like, me and Ben went out of every day in college. It was fantastic. So he, he's got some good |
| 1:18.5 | stories, if you ever want some good stories about me and him. And we were slightly competitive |
| 1:23.5 | with each other. And Ben was a, Ben was superhuman mutant like he's not he is not a human |
| 1:29.5 | like what he can do |
| 1:31.2 | with a bench press and stuff it was absolutely |
| 1:33.6 | stupid like I watched |
| 1:35.3 | that dude bench 585 |
| 1:37.6 | pounds |
| 1:38.3 | like it was 135 |
| 1:41.8 | I'm like it was |
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