Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul.

Matthew Collar here and joining me on the show, very special guests, now former Minnesota Viking fullback, C.J. Ham.

CJ, welcome to the show.

You can't hide in the shower for this one where I'm trying to interview you outside the locker room, huh?

How you doing, man?

I'm great, man. First off, not too special. I'm not a special guest. Just a normal guy.

And yeah, I appreciate you having me, man. Over the years, you've been a supporter. My wife,

my wife has always seen you posting videos of me and my so-called highlights. So I appreciate the love of support, man.

Well, it really is a thing that I have paid a lot of attention to over the years is the the fullback position and the different ways that it's gone in the NFL because once upon a time

when I was a youth, the fullback was a star.

There were guys like Larry Senters who would catch 90 passes, Mike Allstad, who could

run for a thousand yards.

And then even throughout your career, when you first came in, I mean, Jerome Felton was

still around.

Like there were a lot of those great beefy fullbacks.

And it just sort of moved toward everybody's

using 11 personnel and I also think that maybe the youth there's not so many kids who want to grow up

and be a fullback like back of the day why why do you think that is that even during the span of

your career so many fewer fullbacks in the NFL from then to now.

Yeah, you know, I feel like everything changes, you know, just the game, how the game has been

played of late. But also, I would not say the fullback is dead by any means. I mean, there's still

so many great fullbacks out there, guys who have been doing it for a long time.

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