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5 Surgeries,1 Lesson: The 100% Injury Rate the League Won’t Say Out Loud - Kavon Frazier | DSH #1596
01 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is one thing I hate about the NFL.
Chapter 2: What challenges do athletes face during their transition after retirement?
You start comparing yourself with other people. And I start finding myself doing that a lot. My own teammate, if I see him miss a tackle, the whole fans be mad, everybody be genuinely mad. And I would be like a little bit happy on the inside.
Chapter 3: How does getting cut for the first time feel for an NFL player?
Just because we in competition. But that's like just a byproduct of like what the business side of it does to me.
Right.
All right, guys, we got Kayvon here today. Caught him right before the Celebrity Poker Tournament.
Chapter 4: What insights does Kavon share about the NFL injury rates?
You ready for tonight, man?
Yeah, man, I think so. I think so. My father-in-law, he gave me some advice, so I'm going to stick with his advice for sure.
Yeah, tournaments, you got to play different, right?
Chapter 5: How does Kavon deal with burnout after his football career?
Yeah, bro. I played the last one and, you know, I try to play normal, like my normal style. But I feel like you got to be a little bit more patient. Yeah.
Chapter 6: What lessons did Kavon learn before joining the NFL?
Right in the tournament. Absolutely. So this one I'm going to sit back and chill a little bit more.
Let's get it. How's life been since retiring in 22? Been a few years now.
Chapter 7: What investment guidance can athletes benefit from in sports?
You had a lot of time to think about it. Yeah.
Chapter 8: How did Kavon start his own business after retiring from the NFL?
Where are you at with that journey?
Man, it's been good, bro. It's been good. You know, a lot of guys, you know, even me, like a lot of guys went through or go through that like identity crisis type of phase and they, right, as they're phasing out. And I went through it. Mine wasn't as extreme just because I already had something I was working on outside of football.
But I did have a lot of time to sit down and really try to figure out who I am. And that was like my biggest, honestly, that's what I've really valued the most with being out of football now is really figuring out who I am as a man.
Yeah, I know you had a podcast back in the day talking about that purpose, right?
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the podcast was simply – and we stopped it. We paused it just because, you know, our schedule is scheduling conflicts. But it was talking about the challenges that athletes go through as they transition out and bringing awareness to it. I mean, I think that's the biggest thing.
Like, guys don't really – while they're in it, they don't realize that, you know, it's going to come to an end. Even though, like, man, football –
is that one sport to where it's gonna be uh it's shorter like like like people their lifespan of an nfl player is shorter than uh nba or mlb yeah two years right like that yeah i mean oh yeah i mean i think i looked it up it was like 2.3 years right some guys bro i see some guys that's only play for a year and then they got to go over or to the cfl or right i mean
guys don't really play in the league long. But I had the privilege to play six years. I was five years before I had my first cut. And when that first cut came, it was almost like, it was shocking, bro. And I talked to a couple other guys that's going through that same, in that same phase now. And it's almost like you don't even know what to do when you get cut first, right? So, yeah, bro.
I think football is definitely that sport to where guys don't really fully understand that, hey, you got to make the most of it. Right. You know, on and off the field while you're in it.
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