It’s going to be really hard to cheer against Texans wide receiver, Deandre Hopkins, on Saturday when they host the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Wild Card game. Why? Because Hopkins stepped up unlike very many professional athletes will ever do.
The wide receiver will be donating his entire game check on Saturday which totals $29,000 to help pay for Jazmine Barnes’ funeral, a 7-year-old girl who was killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Houston. She was killed when a man in a pickup truck pulled along side of her mother’s car on Sunday and literally starting shooting into the car unprovoked and drove off. Hopkins says that he’ll join the effort to help bring the killer to justice.
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When Hopkins spoke to the media Thursday about his decision to help here’s what he had to say, “What I can do, that’s nothing, that won’t bring back a person. I’m not trying to make it out about me or anything like that. It’s the least I could do.”
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! When ole boy hits the field on Saturday I’ll be the biggest Deandre Hopkins fan in the country. For him to step up like that was huge and I would like to applaud his effort because he didn’t have to do it.
More often than not when our professional athletes make the news it’s for something stupid. So I salute this young man for using his resources to do something positive as opposed to negative. Yes, I’d like to see the Colts win in Houston on Saturday but I want to see Deandre Hopkins ball out. Stop me when I start lyin’!