Juwan Johnson - New Orleans Saints tight end on internet fame, football and salvation over circumstances
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Juwan Johnson is a tight end with the New Orleans Saints. He was undrafted coming out of college after spending 4 seasons with Penn State and his senior year at Oregon.
He signed with the Saints in 2020 and has become an integral part of New Orleans' offense. In 2022, he had 42 receptions for 508 yards and 7 touchdowns. In 2023, he had 37 receptions and 4 touchdowns.
Today on the podcast, Juwan shares his journey of faith and football, discussing his encounter with Christ and the transformation he experienced at Oregon. He also shares about internet fame that he and his wife Chanen have encountered as they've shared their life on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, a conversation with New Orleans Saints tight end, |
| 0:04.9 | Joanne Johnson. Now, this interview was taped about a month or so ago, a little bit more than a |
| 0:10.0 | month ago. And unfortunately, last week at minicamp, Juan Johnson hurt his foot. He's going to have |
| 0:17.0 | surgery and he's out indefinitely. And so obviously, let's be praying for |
| 0:21.5 | Joanne. Let's be rooting for him to come back soon. The official diagnosis, I think, from |
| 0:27.9 | Adam Schefter at ESPM was he be sidelined for, quote, a while. What does that mean? Who knows? |
| 0:33.6 | Hopefully he'll be back and ready for the start of the regular season in early September, |
| 0:38.0 | their home opener at home against the Panthers. |
| 0:40.9 | But Joanne Johnson is a guy who I met a few years ago, and it was an opportunity, like I say, |
| 0:46.1 | a month or so ago, to talk to him about his journey with Christ. |
| 0:50.3 | Joanne is a guy who's been a staple with the Saints since he was brought in in 2020 as an undrafted |
| 0:56.0 | free agent. In 2022, he had 42 receptions for 500 to 8 yards and seven touchdowns. And last season, |
| 1:02.8 | he had 37 receptions and four touchdowns. And he was a guy that was going to be counted on this |
| 1:07.1 | year. And hopefully he still will be with that Saints offense. In college, he was a guy who |
| 1:12.8 | spent four seasons with Penn State and then finished out his senior year at Oregon that is pertinent |
| 1:17.9 | to his faith journey, which he will share here in just a moment. He's also married to his wife, |
| 1:23.6 | Shannon. And what's interesting about their marriage is it's kind of become pretty public |
| 1:29.0 | because he and Shannon are kind of internet famous 3.2 million followers on |
| 1:35.0 | TikTok a million over a million on Instagram and they've kind of lived a very public |
| 1:42.4 | marriage with a lot of different things and different |
| 1:46.1 | aspects of their marriage that's been shared for everybody to see. We talk about their |
| 1:50.4 | struggle with infertility and having a child and now soon having another child. So lots of |
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