NFL extensive receiver Okay.J. Osborn rescued a person from a blazing automobile Sunday night time alongside three different heroes.
Osborn, 25, was driving in an Uber in Austin, Tex., when the driving force all of a sudden stopped and identified a automotive on fireplace on the facet of the highway.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Osborn said Tuesday on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football.”
“The airbags were out, and we didn’t see anybody,” he added. “At that moment, I was thinking the worst. I didn’t think this guy was alive.”
Osborn and the Uber driver ran over to the automobile and had been joined by two extra passersby. The Uber driver opened the passenger door, and the group noticed a dazed man nonetheless alive contained in the automobile.
“We all ran down and we pulled him out of the car,” Osborn mentioned. “I picked him up. He’s bleeding, his blood is on me, and we pick him up. I carried him maybe like 10, 15 yards, and shortly after the police came and the firefighters and everything like that.”
The man was taken to a close-by hospital, and first responders informed Osborn and his fellow heroes that that they had saved his life.
Osborn mentioned Tuesday that he was shaken up and didn’t sleep nicely after the rescue.
“We’re professional athletes, but you know, I’m a regular person just like anybody else,” he mentioned. “That wasn’t a game, this is life. This was life or death.”
Osborn not too long ago accomplished his third season with the Minnesota Vikings, by which he caught 60 passes for 650 yards and 5 touchdowns. His quarterback, Kirk Cousins, was not shocked by his heroics.
“This is totally on-brand for K.J. Osborn,” he wrote on Twitter. “Just a tremendous person and teammate.”
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