Mohamed Massaquoi, Former NFL Wide Receiver
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Episode 152
Mohamed Massaquoi was the second round pick for the Cleveland Browns in the 2009 NFL draft where he recorded two 100-yard receiving games his rookie year, the first Browns rookie to have two or more such games in a season since 1999.
Before joining the NFL, Mohamed earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology taking only 3.5 years from the University of Georgia where he was named the 2008 team captain, selected as a first-team All-Southeastern Conference and Academic All-SEC member, and received the team's Leon Farmer Award for his dedication to the strength and conditioning program and academics.
Mohamed attended Independence High School helping his team win 77 consecutive games and capture four consecutive North Carolina state 4A championships while setting the North Carolina state prep records for career receiving yards, receiving yards (4,851) in a season (2004), touchdown catches in a career (76), and touchdown catches in a season (32 as a senior).
In Spring 2017, while riding ATVs with friends Mohamed, was involved in a an accident that resulted in the amputation of four fingers, leaving his thumb intact. Since retiring from the NFL, Mohamed has worked at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor and is currently a speaker and advocate for fitness, athletes in business, and amputee causes.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Mohamed about his faith in Christ, how he handled losing in college after winning every game he played in high school, adjusting to life without football and how the accident he suffered with an ATV changed his perspective on life and made him grateful to God.
For more on Mohamed, check out his website at MohamedMassaquoi.com.
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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. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Muhammad Masacqua, former NFL wide receiver, |
| 0:25.6 | is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 0:41.1 | to have and that is simply hope. |
| 0:43.7 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child today. |
| 0:49.7 | Today's guest on the podcast, former NFL wide receiver, Mohamed Massacqua. Now, Muhammad was selected in the |
| 0:56.5 | second round of the 2009 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns, 50th player overall. He played his |
| 1:03.1 | college ball at Georgia, where he was a first team all SEC wide receiver and also graduated |
| 1:09.5 | in just three and a half years with a Bachelor of Science and |
| 1:13.1 | Psychology degree from Georgia. And then Mohamed came to the NFL and played four seasons with the |
| 1:18.3 | Browns and then hung on for a couple years there with the Jets and the Jaguars before 2013 and |
| 1:24.2 | injuries taking their toll and ending his NFL career. |
| 1:28.3 | In the spring of 2017, while riding ATVs with friends, all-terrain vehicles, |
| 1:34.8 | Muhammad was involved in an accident that resulted in the amputation of four fingers, |
| 1:39.6 | leaving his thumb intact. |
| 1:41.4 | And on this episode of the podcast, we talk about that injury. We talk about that |
| 1:45.9 | accident and sort of the trauma, everything that surrounded it, and certainly his faith and how |
| 1:52.8 | his faith was affected, whether he wrestled with the Lord at all in finding out that he had to have |
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