Former NFL linebacker turned actor Miles Burris on living as a believer in Hollywood
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Miles Burris played 3 seasons in the NFL with the Raiders after being selected in the 4th round of the 2012 NFL Draft. In 2017, after his career was cut short due to injury, Miles went into acting and has appeared in many projects seen on Netflix, Disney+ and NBC.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Miles about his journey to the NFL, pivoting to acting and living as a believer in Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the Sports |
| 0:12.9 | Sports Conversation. |
| 0:14.3 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 0:17.9 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:19.9 | I am Jason Romano. Today on the show, we get to bring to you a conversation with Miles Burris. A little bonus podcast for you. Miles is a former NFL linebacker with the Raiders for three seasons. Selected in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft out of San Diego State. Miles had some injuries pretty quickly in his career |
| 0:40.6 | and then had to kind of pivot, right? What are you going to do when football has been all you've |
| 0:45.9 | known for so many years? And Miles decided to try his hand at acting. And he's been in some pretty |
| 0:51.2 | big things. Some Disney Plus films. He was on HBO and Netflix. |
| 0:55.5 | He's even in The Young Rock. |
| 0:57.4 | He plays Triple H in the Young Rock series that you can see. |
| 1:01.0 | I think it's on NBC. |
| 1:02.5 | And so really a unique opportunity here to talk to a guy who loves Jesus and is a believer. |
| 1:09.1 | And he's in the movie space in Hollywood and he's also in the NFL space having |
| 1:15.1 | been a former player. We got to catch up with Miles at Super Bowl 57. We taped a bunch of interviews |
| 1:20.3 | that week and a few of them weren't able to air that week leading up to the big game when |
| 1:25.9 | the Chiefs obviously ended up winning the Super Bowl. |
| 1:28.4 | So now we're bringing this conversation to you because I thought Miles Burris was a really interesting guy |
| 1:33.0 | and wanted you all to hear our conversation from a few weeks back at Super Bowl 57. |
| 1:38.3 | In Phoenix, this is Miles Burris, former NFL player, now actor on Sports Specter. |
| 1:53.9 | Miles Burris, welcome to Sports Spectrum, buddy. How you doing? I'm great, Jason. How are you? |
| 1:57.9 | I'm good, man. It's good to talk to you. We're here at Super Bowl 57, Radio Row here in Phoenix, Arizona. I hadn't known a lot about your journey. And as I'm doing my research and opportunities come to talk to different people, I was like, I think this Miles Burris guy. I want to kind of hear more about his journey. So you were drafted fourth round, right, to the Raiders. You played for three seasons, |
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