Tre Boston on Battles with Julio Jones, Roman’s Mentorship, Being the International Man of the Sport Padel
NFL: Good Morning Football
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of NFL Players: Second Acts, Charles Tillman and Roman Harper sit down with former NFL safety Tre Boston for a conversation that moves far beyond the field. Tre opens up about the injuries during his rookie year, the story behind “Thieves Ave”, and embracing the nickname “Mr. Por Quatro.” From returning to Carolina to walking away from football, Tre speaks candidly about identity, growth, and what comes next. He discusses building a show with his wife, how his perspective has evolved over time, and how he figured out who he was after the game was over.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to give a shout out to the veterans that I was with, man. |
| 0:07.1 | Like a lot of you guys who really influenced me that when I went different places that |
| 0:11.7 | I understood veterans aren't like this everywhere. |
| 0:15.8 | You know, Rome, I feel like I would put you, you know, respectfully on my Mount Rushmore |
| 0:20.4 | because you talk about following a guy, |
| 0:22.6 | trying to give my all to be a sponge, learning what you were about, going to your wedding in 2015, |
| 0:29.0 | and then me leading to, you know, engaging my wife and married her the next year because I saw what a wedding looked like, |
| 0:36.6 | and I wanted that for me and my family. |
| 0:38.5 | So when you're around guys like that, it's easier to grow up into who you should be, not who you always want to be. |
| 0:50.3 | What's up everybody? I'm Peanut Tillman and this is the NFL player's second acts podcast. |
| 0:58.3 | And with me as always as my trusty co-hosts, Roman Unc Harper. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah, yeah, you know what? I can tell we actually went and got lunch. |
| 1:06.1 | Peanuts bring the energy right now. So we're just going to jump right into this thing. |
| 1:09.2 | This is going to be, I'll be honest, this is probably going to be my favorite episode we ever done because of our next guest. He knows how much he means to me and how special this guy is. Yeah, you know what? Bump it. I'll do it. Bump it. All right. He was a defensive back for seven years in the NFL. He was on the Panthers Super Bowl 50 team. With us. Yes, sir, with us. And after |
| 1:29.2 | football, he's been a TV host. He works for HBCU covering that football side. He's also had a TV |
| 1:35.5 | show with his wife, which is also very special. And now he, I would call him an ambassador to |
| 1:43.3 | Paddell. Yeah. You know what I mean? My man ambassador to Padale. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:46.7 | My man, Chapel Hill's finest. |
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