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Matt Leinart achieved several results in his football career.
He was a two-time national champion and Heisman Trophy winner at the USC and was a first draft election as he tried his luck in the NFL.
While pushing into the next phase of his career as a college football analyst on Fox Sports’ “Big Noon Kickoff,” he recently collaborated with Abbott in the hope of tackling the need to tackle the blood short in the US
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Former NFL -Quarterback Matt Leinart talks to the media about “We Give Blood Drive” under the Big Ten NCAA College Football Media Days at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on July 23, 2025. (Lucas Peltier-Preferred Pictures)
The “We Give Blood Drive” campaign is something that hit a little closer to the home of Leinart.
“Gosh, my mother died from cancer years ago, but she needed blood transfusions,” he explained to Pakinomist Digital in a recent conversation. “We have friends who have children who have to do with pretty serious illnesses that needed transfusions to live and they are in order, which is great.
“One in 83 new mothers need blood after birth. My wife just gave birth to our third child. Fortunately, she didn’t need it, but when you start to hear the statistics about this, and then you’re like ‘oh wow it could have been us.’ It just means more.
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USC Trojans Quarterback Matt Leinart in action during the Orange Bowl in 2005 against Oklahoma Soners in Miami on January 4, 2005. (Preston Mack-usa Today Sports)
Leinart expressed the importance of giving blood as some blood centers have only less than a day’s delivery of blood available.
“A donation could save up to three lives that I just want to hammer that point home,” he said. “That’s how important this can be and the influence it could have.”
Abbott’s campaign will also pale the Big Ten conference schools against each other to see which one can donate the most blood during the season. The winning school will receive $ 1 million to promote students and Society’s health initiatives.
The competition begins at “We Give Blood Day” on August 27, and it runs through the Big Ten Championship Game on December 6th.
