Joel Dreessen - Former NFL Tight End

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 424

Joel Dreessen played eight seasons in the NFL as a tight end with the Jets, Texans and Broncos. He was selected in the sixth round of the NFL Draft by the New York Jets in 2005 after a successful college career at Colorado State. After playing his rookie season with the Jets, Joel was out of football in 2006 but signed with the Texans in 2007 and would remain in Houston until 2011.

In 2012, he would sign a contract to play with the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning. Dreessen was a member of the 2013 AFC Championship team in Denver and played in Super Bowl XLVIII against Seattle.

Injuries would cause Dreessen to retire in 2014 after eight seasons.

On this episode of the podcast, we talked to Joel about his NFL career, catching passes from Peyton Manning, the tough adjustment to life after football, how his faith in Christ helped him on his journey and why his walk with God remains a work in progress.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.2	Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum.
0:22.8	I am Jason Romano.
0:23.8	It's great to have you joining us here on the show today.
0:26.4	Before we get to our conversation with Joel Driesen, the former NFL tight end, I want to tell you about our brand new podcast that released December 16th, and it's called Football Sunday.
0:38.9	This is a podcast from the creators of sports spectrum.
0:42.3	It's our second venture into the podcast world.
0:45.5	And it's really a unique way to tell first person stories from NFL players,
0:51.6	current and former players, on how God has worked profoundly in their lives.
0:57.5	Short podcasts here.
0:59.0	It's five to ten minutes long.
1:01.2	And it's, again, first person stories, the athletes themselves, people like Drew Brees and Kirk Cousins and Thomas Davis, players in the NFL currently and some former players, guys like
1:14.0	Matt Hasselbeck, Brandon Marshall, all telling their stories of how God has worked and
1:20.1	moved profoundly in their lives.
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1:49.6	Joel Driesen is our guest today on Sports Spectrum. Former NFL tight end selected in the
1:55.4	sixth round of the 2005 NFL draft by the New York Jets played his college football at Colorado State.
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