From the Rose Bowl to Real Estate: Colt McCoy on Identity, Injury, and the Long Obedience After Football

Host Justin Forman sits down with Colt McCoy, former University of Texas and NFL quarterback, for a conversation that traces how a career-altering injury on the biggest stage of his life became the foundation for a faith that never wavered — through 14 years in the NFL and into a new season as a commercial real estate entrepreneur in Fort Worth.

Colt McCoy played quarterback at the University of Texas and spent 14 seasons in the NFL before retiring to found a commercial real estate company alongside partners at HPI in Fort Worth, Texas. Raised in West Texas by a coaching family, Colt has spent his entire adult life "in a glass box" — watched, known, and never quite off the record. This conversation traces that journey from a national championship injury that shattered his sense of identity to the quiet, unglamorous grind of starting a business from scratch.

Key Topics:

• The night before the national championship game and the injury that changed everything
  
  
• Why Colt says his identity was "totally on football" — and what it meant when that was taken away
  
  
• Growing up in a coaching family in West Texas and learning leadership as a young quarterback
  
  
• Living in a "glass box" — faith and integrity when everyone is watching
  
  
• The elbow injury that ended his NFL career and the hard conversation that followed
  
  
• Praying through a life transition with his wife after 14 years of football-first structure
  
  
• What playing quarterback taught him about leading a team through crisis
  
  
• Building a faith-first commercial real estate company from the ground up in Fort Worth
  
  

For entrepreneurs walking through their own transitions — whether that's a career ending, a new venture starting, or an identity being re-formed — Colt's story is a picture of what it looks like to hold tightly to Christ and loosely to everything else. This conversation is a reminder that our calling doesn't end when the game does.