Former NFL extensive receiver Braylon Edwards rescued an 80-year-old man who was being assaulted inside a Michigan YMCA locker room this previous Friday. 

Edwards, a standout receiver at Michigan who loved an eight-year NFL profession, stopped a 25-year-old from additional assaulting the aged man. Edwards mentioned he initially heard an argument about music and the way loud it was being performed. The argument escalated to the purpose the place Edwards heard pushing and shoving. 

“As soon as I heard a thud, that is after I obtained up and circled,” Edwards mentioned, by way of Click on on Detroit.com. “After which I see the man for what I used to be considering was reaching for a telephone beneath the sufferer grabs the again of the sufferer’s head by the hair, and he was about to slam it down on the counter.” 

Edwards mentioned the person who was assaulting the aged man fought him as properly. He has since been arrested and stays in custody. 

The 80-year-old is within the hospital however is predicted to be OK. Edwards mentioned that he’s hoping to satisfy him after he’s discharged. 

“On the finish of the day, that is what you do,” Edwards mentioned. “My mother, my grandmother, my father. Within the second … these are the folks that you consider.”