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For many a career in the NFL is what their entire life is primed for, but it can leave some, even those who achieve their dream, feeling hollow. Their lives lacking meaning beyond the playing field.

At the age of 29 and after seeing out a record breaking contract that made him the best paid player in his position in the NFL, Jason Brown walked away from the game and into one of the world's hardest professions. That's when 'Jason Brown, the football star' became 'Jason Brown, the farmer'.

He's been telling Sportshour鈥檚 Katie Smith, early one morning from his fruit farm in North Carolina, about his remarkable story and about the two million tons of food he gives away annually for free.

Image: Former NFL player Jason Brown works with volunteers as they harvest sweet potatoes for the needy on his First Fruits Farm near Louisburg, N.C. (Credit: Robert Willett/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)