Maurice Williams – Former Jaguars player turned team chaplain on faith and life after sports
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Maurice Williams is a former offensive lineman with the Jaguars. He played all nine of his professional football seasons with Jacksonville after being selected in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft following a stellar collegiate career at Michigan.
In 2018, he became the team chaplain of the Jaguars.
Today on the podcast, Maurice joins Matt Forte to talk about his journey from NFL player to team chaplain, writing his new book “When the Game is Gone,” the importance of discipleship and stewarding the athlete platform well.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I don't play for the fame, I play for the king |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, every step on the field let the heavens ring |
| 0:07.0 | Got Jesus in my heart so I run with a purpose |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, this is sports spectrum |
| 0:13.0 | Faith on the surface, uh, I don't play for the crowd, I play for the king |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, every rap, every drill I give every day from the locker room prayers to the lights that gleam. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We raise his name, uh, welcome to the team, huh, uh, uh, uh. |
| 0:29.6 | And now, here's your host, former NFL pro role running back in Chicago Bears legend. |
| 0:35.6 | Matt Forte. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, uh, uh, what? running back in Chicago Bears legend. Matt Forte. |
| 0:44.5 | Thank you all for tuning in the sports spectrum. |
| 0:50.7 | And I'm excited, Jason, today we get to talk to Maurice Williams, a former Jacksonville Jaguar tackle, but also current team chaplain, which is awesome because you go from player to chaplain and be able to impact the locker room continually after the game is over. |
| 1:02.0 | So Maurice, thanks for joining us. Good to have you. excited to talk to you. |
| 1:06.8 | Matt, thanks for being on here. It's a joy. It's been a while, I've been on here with Jason, so it's a great kind of circling back |
| 1:13.3 | around to continue to talk about the work guy has me doing here in Jacksonville, |
| 1:17.3 | and I guess in above, for sure. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, yeah, that's right. |
| 1:21.6 | And let's go, I like to start with the journey from the beginning. |
| 1:25.7 | You are from Michigan, grew up there, but ended up going to University of Michigan, too. |
| 1:31.9 | And what, like, the love for football. |
| 1:36.6 | Let's talk about that journey and where that came from and how that was birth. |
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