Leonard "Big Cat" Williams - Seattle Seahawks Defensive Lineman on leaving a legacy, pro bowl snubs and scoring his first ever TD
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Leonard Williams is a defensive lineman for the Seattle Seahawks. He was originally selected 6th overall by the New York Jets in the 2015 NFL Draft. He played with the Jets from 2015-2019 before moving to the Giants. He was with the Giants from 2019-2023 and was traded to the Seahawks in mid-2023.
In December of 2024, he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Month and had 11 sacks and a pick-six on Aaron Rodgers for a touchdown.
Today on the podcast, Matt and Leonard talk about being teammates with the Jets, what it means to have peace in football, Leonard scoring his first ever NFL touchdown in December 2024, leaving a legacy and how he grew in his Jesus walk.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.2 | Splits defenders crushing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.2 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.3 | Forte, Diamond Catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.2 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:29.9 | What's up, Sports Spectrum? |
| 0:31.3 | It's Matt Forte here with Jason Romano, and today we got a good podcast for you. |
| 0:35.2 | You got my big little homie called Big Cat on the podcast today. |
| 0:41.3 | He was the sixth overall pick in the 2015 NFL draft by the Jets. |
| 0:46.6 | That's where I met him the next year when I came to the Jets. |
| 0:50.4 | Spent a couple of years together. |
| 0:52.3 | And he is a Pro Bowl defensive lineman, man. |
| 0:55.9 | And he is one of the young dudes that I kept in touch with in retirement. |
| 1:02.2 | And he has a wonderful testimony and also just a great dude, man. |
| 1:07.8 | And Leonard, this is your big cat. |
| 1:10.5 | This is his first time on the sports spectrum. So I want to welcome to the podcast. Yeah, thank you for having me. And I'm over here laughing on the inside right now. Every time you call me a young or a little bro and stuff like that, because I'm like, I'm in a year of 10. I just finished year 10. And like, you know, I'm like, guys are calling me like |
| 1:27.7 | uncle of the team and stuff like that right now. So, good to know that I'm still young to some people, you know. I know, right, right? And just, it's so, football is so weird because, you know, you're in your, you're, when you're in your 30s, you're like uncle and you're like a whole head and all that stuff. |
| 1:24.3 | Same thing when I came to the Jets. |
| 1:25.9 | It was so funny because how time goes so fast and how the tables have turned. Now you're the old head. Now you've been in a decade. I played a decade in the league. And we were laughing about it earlier because I was saying, man, I should have played D-Line or I should have did this and that. |
| 2:02.5 | And you were like, I don't know about that. |
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