Those who’ve been following Brock Purdy’s NFL career may also be aware that he’s also deeply religious, something he’s demonstrated on numerous occasions going back to his days in college football. “I take my life seriously with my faith,” he told the Associated Press in 2019, back when he was still playing for the Iowa State Cyclones. That’s apparent on his Instagram profile, describing himself thusly: “Follower of Jesus. Iowa State Alum.”
His faith, he explained in an Instagram video posted by Sports Spectrum, supersedes everything for him, even football. “I didn’t want to grip on to this life of, ‘My gosh, I’m in the NFL. I have a starting quarterback role. I can’t lose it,'” he said. Fame, status, and money, he added, are simply earthly distractions that can throw people off course if they become too absorbed in them. “Keeping my eyes on Jesus and His promises … that’s life, and that’s a life worth living. And that’s how you save your life,” he added.
In an interview with Sports Spectrum, Purdy opened up about why he’s decided to live apart from the secular world, which he contended wasn’t a display of being superior to those who followed a different path, but simply the choice that he’d made. “The bottom line is for me, my identity is in Jesus,” he said. “I get that, and I’m gonna roll with that.”
