Christian Football Players in the NFL: More Faith-Filled Athletes

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7. Bradley Pinion (Atlanta Falcons)

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Veteran punter Bradley Pinion has a decade of NFL experience and a heart for Jesus. The 31-year-old also has an amazing testimony, including a high-school encounter with what he believes was an angel. After attending Clemson, Pinion was a fifth-round pick for San Francisco, where he played before heading to Tampa Bay and then Atlanta.

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The punter and his wife, Kaeleigh, support Compassion International. They sponsor children, established two child-development centers in Tanzania, and went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. Bourne, a Walter Payton Man of the Year Award nominee for the Falcons, raised more than $120,000 last season for Compassion through the “Punts for a Purpose” campaign.

“God came through again and again,” Bourne recently told “Sports Spectrum” about his life and career. “It wouldn’t even be possible” without God, he said.

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Stephanie Martin
Stephanie Martin, a freelance writer and editor in Denver, has spent her entire 30-year journalism career in Christian publishing. She loves the Word and words, is a binge reader and grammar nut, and is fanatic (as her family can attest) about Jeopardy! and pro football.

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