David Pollack, ESPN College Football Analyst
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 312
David Pollack is a college football analyst for ESPN. He was selected 17th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals where his career would be cut short by a neck injury sustained on September 17, 2006 in a game against the Cleveland Browns.
As a defensive end at the University of Georgia, he was just the second Bulldog to be named a three-time All-American. Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker was the first. He was the 2002 SEC Player of the Year, the 2003 and 2004 Ted Hendricks Award winner, and the 2004 Chuck Bednarik Award, Lombardi Award, Lott Trophy and SEC Defensive Player of the Year winner. His 36 sacks for the Bulldogs remain a school record.
He joined ESPN in 2009 and has been a staple on their signature college football show, College Gameday, each Saturday morning.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to David about his football journey, how he came to trust in Jesus, overcoming adversity, turning a nightmare into a dream, and the importance of preaching the Gospel through our actions.
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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 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with David Pollack from ESPN is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:27.3 | Childhood, as we know, should be full of exploration and learning and growth. |
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| 0:45.0 | And that results in malnutrition, child labor, abuse, and hopelessness. Poverty is such a vicious |
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| 1:38.0 | Today in the podcast, we welcome college football analyst David Pollock to the program. David, of course, |
| 1:44.0 | works with ESPN. But he played a lot of footballack to the program. David, of course, works with ESPN. |
| 1:45.9 | But he played a lot of football back in the day. |
| 1:48.6 | He played his college ball with the Georgia Bulldogs, |
| 1:51.3 | a three-time first-team All-American, |
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