There’s a purpose why Brandin Cooks has been on five NFL teams in his career.
Cooks has been traded 4 occasions, an NFL report he shares with Eric Dickerson – however it’s hardly due to an absence of expertise or points in any locker room.
As a matter of reality, the broad receiver had a 1,000-yard season with every of his first 4 groups (Saints, Patriots, Rams and Texans), and he expects to do the identical with the Dallas Cowboys this upcoming season.
Nonetheless, it’s his veteran management within the locker room and what he does off the sphere that make him needed.
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Broad receiver Brandin Cooks, #3 of the Dallas Cowboys, celebrates with followers after the sport towards the Detroit Lions at AT&T Stadium on Dec. 30, 2023 in Arlington, Texas. (Richard Rodriguez/Getty Photos)
Earlier this week, Cooks hosted a soccer camp in his hometown of Stockton, California, close to the Bay Space the place he grew up watching Jerry Rice.
Over 700 have been in attendance on the sold-out camp, and given his upbringing and religion, Cooks feels a duty to not solely give again to the group, however the one he grew up in.
“I feel it’s enormous. I feel it’s at all times necessary that you just give again, however particularly to the group that had an influence on you, you grew up in. Being from Stockton, wouldn’t change it for the world, love the place with all my coronary heart,” Cooks stated in a latest interview with Fox Information Digital. “To have the ability to encourage children and proceed to present them hope and get them to come back again and present face, I feel is necessary.”
The camp was sponsored by He Will get Us, a motion that its agenda, per its web site, says is to “transfer past the mess of our present cultural second to a spot the place all of us are invited to rediscover the love story of Jesus – Christians, non-Christians, and all people in between.”
Brandin Cooks, #3 of the Dallas Cowboys, celebrates a landing within the fourth quarter towards the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium on Oct. 16, 2023 in Inglewood, California. (Harry How/Getty Photos)
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Cooks grew up with a trustworthy upbringing and credit it to his success.
“For me, my religion is my basis. Christ is, I actually imply it once I say it, the whole lot I’ve, the whole lot I’ve been blessed with, even from the nice to the not so good. He’s at all times been my basis rising up and simply proceed to have the ability to be a lightweight on this world at present,” Cooks stated.
One of many initiatives of He Will get Us is to like your “neighbor.”
“Our neighbor is somebody that will not seem like us, discuss like us, costume like us, or regardless of the case could also be, we have been known as to like, and God will maintain the whole lot else,” Cooks stated. “We simply gotta proceed to be that instance on how you can love, even in essentially the most uncomfortable moments.
“And I feel that’s what they’re speaking about, that’s what they’re placing on the market. It was simply so pure to have the ability to tag-team with them and be part of this marketing campaign, part of this motion, it’s necessary to me.”
So far as these trades are involved, sure, Cooks appears at all of it in a optimistic gentle.
Brandin Cooks, #3 of the Dallas Cowboys, stands on the sidelines towards the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Discipline on Aug. 19, 2023 in Seattle. (Tom Hauck/Getty Photos)
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“I positively lean on [my faith,] however I additionally bear in mind and don’t neglect who I’m, the influence I can have on a group on and off the sphere and within the locker room,” Cooks stated. “For me, I simply take a look at it as a possibility to have the ability to go round and make my mark on completely different cities, completely different folks, completely different locker rooms, nonetheless on the similar time producing at a excessive stage. I take a look at it as an ideal factor in a way – I’d reasonably that than get lower 5, six occasions. That’s the way in which that I take a look at it.”
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