Johnny Manziel returns to spotlight in FOX show | Sports News

Johnny Manziel is testing his abilities away from the gridiron after the ex-Cleveland Browns quarterback was named a solid member on season 4 of ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.’

The hit FOX show forces celebrities to take part in brutal challenges which might be used to choose real-life United States particular operations forces. Manziel is one of 18 rivals, a number of of whom moreover loved embellished soccer careers.

Back in 2012, Manziel took faculty soccer by storm as a redshirt freshman for Texas A&M — swiftly changing into one of probably the most thrilling gamers in the nation en route to profitable the Heisman Trophy that 12 months.

After being chosen by the Browns with the No. 22 total choose in the NFL Draft two years later, nevertheless, Manziel was by no means ready to obtain related success on the skilled degree. Cleveland launched the struggling signal-caller in 2016, thereby capping off a staggering fall from grace.

Alongside Manziel, former NFL huge receivers Eric Decker and Randall Cobb might be featured on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, in addition to long snapper Andrew East. Jussie Smollett, Teresa Giudice, Gia Giudice, Eva Marcille, Kody Brown, Brittany Cartwright, Jessie James Decker, Shawn Johnson East, Mark Estes, Chanel Iman, Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, Ravi V. Patel, Christie Pearce Rampone and Nick Young spherical out the remaining contestants.

Manziel, Decker and Cobb are removed from the one ex-NFL stars who’ve appeared on the sequence. Last season, longtime Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was disqualified after failing the interrogation problem.

While making an look on the ‘4th and 1’ podcast, Newton make clear why he agreed to be on the show. “The common question with doing this show has been: Why did you do it?” he started. “And I keep coming back to the same thing: I wanted a challenge in my life. There’s times being a pedestrian, and I say this jokingly, but being a regular person in the normal, everyday life, you forget about really what made you great, and you have to shelve that. Those emotions, that dark side, that fearlessness of, like, I can go into that person, I can go into that character, and it takes little to no effort. I need a reason.

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“As a normal person, there’s not a lot of things that really scratches your competitive itch of just the ferocity that I played with. There’s probably nothing in my life that I can compare it to or have outlets to unleash it. During the show, I’ve had opportunities to do that, and it made me realize a lot of built-up tension that a lot of athletes mask for the rest of their lives. Call it CTE, call it just competitiveness, call it a little off your rocker, call it — I call it great. But all that to say, that show really got everything out of me in regards to: I wanted to see if I was afraid. I wanted to be scared. I wanted to — and it sounds crazy — but I wanted to, the way that football may enforce me to react.

“There was fearful moments, there was scared moments, there was uncertain moments, there was anxious moments. There was anxiety, there was excitement, there was rage. There was just fulfillment, there was joy, there was happiness. The adrenaline — I have not had nothing in real life after football that meets that.”