Zamir Cobb: Gaining Steelers Respect, How The Trust Works for NFL Legends
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of NFL Players: Second Acts, Peanut Tillman and Roman Harper sit down with Zamir Cobb — former NFL wide receiver turned President of The Trust (powered by the NFLPA) — to talk about his powerful journey from the gridiron to guiding players through life beyond the game.
Zamir shares stories from his time with the Steelers, including training alongside a young Ben Roethlisberger and learning under Coach Bill Cowher, as well as the mental battles that came with an early injury during his rookie season. He opens up about how those challenges fueled his passion for helping others and ultimately led him to a career of purpose — leading programs that have helped more than a thousand NFL legends improve their overall quality of life.
From his early days in D.C. to testifying in over 150 court cases as a juvenile case worker, Zamir’s story is a masterclass in resilience, service, and redefining success after football.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | And I remember my coaches pulling me to the side and saying to me, particularly DeAngelo Fields, |
| 0:13.1 | don't cheat your opportunity. You have a responsibility beyond yourself. And this is more than a game this game can take your places right so |
| 0:23.5 | football to me um was from that moment on was more than just the game it's been life or death and i like |
| 0:32.6 | the fact or i appreciate the fact that i get the work for the business every day that changed my |
| 0:38.4 | life and for the players every day to change my life. |
| 0:47.8 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Peanut Tumman and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | And with me as always is my trusty co-hosts |
| 0:55.9 | Roman harper that's it that's all I got all right no jokes no nothing just you're not going to |
| 1:01.1 | okay yeah you're serious mode right now so you're you're making me blame to be serious all right |
| 1:05.5 | go to our next all right our next guest he played for the Steelers and the Cardinals he is now |
| 1:10.7 | the executive director of the trust ladies Ladies and gentlemen, is Mirikov. Welcome to the pod. Yes. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. Appreciate you. I mean, you literally just arrived. Like, you haven't even been in your room and you came right down so man i i thank you for coming here |
| 1:28.2 | and just wanting to get this thing right right to it we appreciate you no thank you thank you for having |
| 1:33.1 | where was you where'd you come in from dc hometown now now when you say dc like what because like |
| 1:40.5 | dc that that's a lot yeah is it virginia is it like, no, no, no. You truly like in D.C. So the indigenous folks, D.C. is D.C. Okay. Yeah. So when I say D.C. I mean the city of Washington. Okay. So, but you may hear DMV. Yeah. that's, yeah. Yeah, we're a kin. |
| 2:01.4 | Okay. |
| 2:01.8 | Brothers and sisters. |
| 2:02.7 | No, but you're in it. |
| 2:03.7 | But I'm in it, yeah. |
| 2:04.7 | Okay, all right. |
| 2:05.4 | I like that. |
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