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'''CJ Stroud''' is a phenomenal young [[NFL]] [[QB]] who shattered many records in 2023 and early 2024 (playoffs) as a rookie, playing for the [[Houston Texans]] while outspokenly [[evangelism|evangelizing]] for [[Jesus Christ]]. Previously, as a star college player at [[Ohio State]], he was photographed kneeling in prayer on the field.<ref>https://www.cleveland.com/buckeye-talk-podcast/2022/04/cj-stroud-spent-two-years-mastering-the-roller-coaster-that-is-being-ohio-state-footballs-qb1.html</ref> | '''CJ Stroud''' is a phenomenal young [[NFL]] [[QB]] who shattered many records in 2023 and early 2024 (playoffs) as a rookie, playing for the [[Houston Texans]] while outspokenly [[evangelism|evangelizing]] for [[Jesus Christ]]. Previously, as a star college player at [[Ohio State]], he was photographed kneeling in prayer on the field.<ref>https://www.cleveland.com/buckeye-talk-podcast/2022/04/cj-stroud-spent-two-years-mastering-the-roller-coaster-that-is-being-ohio-state-footballs-qb1.html</ref> | ||
| − | He grew up in a family impoverished by the | + | He grew up in a family impoverished by the 38-year incarceration of his father under [[California]]'s brutal Three Strikes and You're Out Law.<ref>https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1995/3strikes.html</ref> CJ's home with his mother and siblings was a cramped apartment above a storage facility, and was reportedly even near or actually homeless for a time. CJ was quoted as saying about his father: |
{{cquote|When I talk to him now, I don’t hold any ill will. I told him, ‘I love you.’ He made his mistakes. I’ve made mine. It’s not about the bad.<ref name="EssentiallySports">https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-who-are-cj-strouds-parents-texans-qbs-changing-equation-with-pastor-dad-childhood-struggles/</ref>}} | {{cquote|When I talk to him now, I don’t hold any ill will. I told him, ‘I love you.’ He made his mistakes. I’ve made mine. It’s not about the bad.<ref name="EssentiallySports">https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-who-are-cj-strouds-parents-texans-qbs-changing-equation-with-pastor-dad-childhood-struggles/</ref>}} | ||
Revision as of 23:44, January 15, 2024
CJ Stroud is a phenomenal young NFL QB who shattered many records in 2023 and early 2024 (playoffs) as a rookie, playing for the Houston Texans while outspokenly evangelizing for Jesus Christ. Previously, as a star college player at Ohio State, he was photographed kneeling in prayer on the field.[1]
He grew up in a family impoverished by the 38-year incarceration of his father under California's brutal Three Strikes and You're Out Law.[2] CJ's home with his mother and siblings was a cramped apartment above a storage facility, and was reportedly even near or actually homeless for a time. CJ was quoted as saying about his father:
| “ | When I talk to him now, I don’t hold any ill will. I told him, ‘I love you.’ He made his mistakes. I’ve made mine. It’s not about the bad.[3] | ” |
When CJ earned money under the NIL program as a college star at Ohio State, he bought his mother a four-bedroom home.[3] He was subsequently picked as the #2 overall choice in the 2022 draft.
References
- ↑ https://www.cleveland.com/buckeye-talk-podcast/2022/04/cj-stroud-spent-two-years-mastering-the-roller-coaster-that-is-being-ohio-state-footballs-qb1.html
- ↑ https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1995/3strikes.html
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-who-are-cj-strouds-parents-texans-qbs-changing-equation-with-pastor-dad-childhood-struggles/