C.J. Stroud
When My Dad Gets Out …
I’m Giving Him a Job!
Published
TMZSports.com/Between The Lines
C.J. Stroud is all about household … and he tells TMZ Sports that after his dad is launched from prison, he plans to have him work along with his basis!!
The Houston Texans quarterback opened as much as us about his plans practically a decade after his father, Coleridge Bernard Stroud III, was sentenced to Folsom State Prison close to Sacramento.
Stroud’s dad is presently serving a 38-year sentence after pleading responsible to carjacking, kidnapping, theft and misdemeanor sexual battery in 2015.
Stroud stated his dad stays his greatest buddy … and when he will get out, he plans to carry him into the C.J. Stroud Foundation, which helps single moms, youngsters of incarcerated mother and father, and criminal justice reform.
“In his situation, he’s been in jail for about 10 years now, so he’s seen people come in, come out, and he just has a heart for people like me and my mom. He has a lot of ideas on giving to people in halfway homes,” Stroud stated.
“He doesn’t just wanna do that. He has other things in mind, but yeah, I think having it family-oriented is dope because that’s how I started off. In his perspective, you know, being formerly incarcerated, he’ll have a whole different branch that we can go down to help people because that’s our goal.”
Stroud, 24, additionally praised his mom, Kimberly, the co-founder of the C.J. Stroud Foundation … saying working together with her has been a blessing as “her heart and compassion for others has been amazing.”
Stroud defined he is grateful for her strict parenting — crediting her with shaping him into the person he has turn into.