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Matt Leinart has made many achievements in his football career.
He was a double national champion and winner of the Heisman trophy at the USC and was a choice of draft in the first round when he tried his luck in the NFL.
While he goes into the next phase of his career as an university football analyst on the “Big Noon Kickoff” of Fox Sports, he recently associated himself with Abbott in the hope of fighting against the need to respond to blood shortages in the United States
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The former NFL quarterrier, Matt Leinart, speaks to the media of “We Give Blood Drive” during the Big Ten Ncaa College Football Media Days at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on July 23, 2025. (Lucas Peltier-Imagn images)
The “We Give Blood Drive” campaign is something that has struck our home for Leinart.
“My God, my mother died of cancer years ago, but she needed blood transfusions,” he told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview. “We have friends who have children who are dealing with fairly serious illnesses that required transfusions to live, and they are fine, which is great.
“One in 83 new mothers needs blood after childbirth. My wife just gave birth to our third child. Fortunately, she didn’t need it, but when you start to hear the statistics around that, and then you say to yourself:” Oh Wow, it could have been us. “It just means more.
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The USC Trojan horses quarterrier Matt Leinart, in action during the 2005 Orange Bowl against Oklahoma Sooners in Miami on January 4, 2005. (Preston Mack-USA today Sports)
Leinart expressed the importance of giving blood because some blood centers have only less than a day of available blood.
“A gift could save up to three lives, which I just want to hammer this point at home,” he said. “It is how important it could be and the impact it could have.”
Abbott’s campaign will also oppose the schools of the Big Ten Conference against each other to see which can give the most blood during the season. The winning school will receive $ 1 million to advance the health initiatives of students and students.
The competition will start on “We Give Blood Day” on August 27, and it will take place in the Big Ten championship match on December 6.
