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Ryan Clark gets $108.5 billion partner to supercharge career shift after ESPN exit

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Ryan Clark is making moves. The former NFL player-turned-analyst was left in limbo when he was laid off by ESPN while he was live on air doing the NFL Live show. Ryan Clark has secured investment for Pivot25 Productions GETTY Expectedly this drew a huge amount of backlash, including from one of the network’s most influential figures Stephen A. Smith. But Clark, a Super Bowl winner with the Pittsburgh Steelers, wasn’t the only one, with brutal mass layoffs occurring which also saw NFL Network’s top insider Tom Pelissero let go . Although the polarizing Clark took some time before addressing his abrupt firing, he later spoke out candidly on The Pivot Podcast – which he co-hosts with Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor – where he revealed that he wasn’t laid off, but he was in fact fired . He further accused ESPN of having used the mass layoffs as a ‘camouflage’ for firing him after 11 years without a legitimate reason. Whatever beliefs he holds about the breakdown in relationship between hi