Heisman trophy winner Matt Leinart, alarm the alarm of blood scarcity, why the campaign comes home at home

Matt Leinart achieved numerous achievements in his football career.

He was twice a national champion and winner of the Heisman trophy at the USC and was a first round draft selection when he tried luck in the NFL.

While advancing in the next phase of his career as a university soccer analyst at the “Big Noon Kickoff” of News Sports, he recently associated with Abbott with the hope of addressing the need to address blood shortage in the United States

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The former NFL field marshal, Matt Leinart, talks to the media about the “We Ged Blood Drive” during the Big Ten Ncaa College Football Media Days in Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on July 23, 2025. (Images of Lucas Peltier-Imagn)

The “We Ged Blood Drive” campaign is something that hit a little closer to home to Leinart.

“Gosh, my mother died of cancer years ago, but needed blood transfusions,” he told News Digital in a recent interview. “We have friends who have children who are dealing with quite severe diseases who need transfusions to live, and they will be fine, which is great.

“One in 83 new mothers need blood after childbirth. My wife has just given birth to our third child. Fortunately, she didn’t need her, but when you start listening to statistics around this, and then you are like, ‘Oh, oh, oh, that could have been us’? It simply means more.

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The field marshal of the Trojans of the USC Matt Leinart en Action during the Orange Bowl 2005 against the Oklahoma Sooners in Miami on January 4, 2005. (Preston Mack-USA Today Sports)

Leinart expressed the importance of giving blood, since some blood centers only have less than a blood supply day available.

“A donation could save up to three lives, which I just want to hammer that point home,” he said. “That is how important this could be and the impact it could have.”

The Abbott campaign will also face the Big Ten conference schools to see which can donate the greatest blood during the season. The winning school will receive $ 1 million to advance the health initiatives of the students and the community.

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The competition will begin at “We Give Blood Day” on August 27, and will run for the Big Ten championship game on December 6.

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