{"id":18351,"date":"2024-05-31T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=18351"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:28:03","slug":"cowboys-brandin-cooks-uses-his-faith-to-give-back-to-his-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/05\/cowboys-brandin-cooks-uses-his-faith-to-give-back-to-his-community.html","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys’ Brandin Cooks Uses His Faith to Give Back to His Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s a reason why Brandin Cooks has been on five NFL teams in his career. He’s been traded four times, and he shares an NFL record with Eric Dickerson, but it’s hardly because of a lack of talent or any problems in any locker room. As a matter of fact, the wide receiver had a 1,000-yard season with each of his first four teams (Saints, Patriots, Rams, and Texans), and he expects to do the same with the Dallas Cowboys this upcoming season.<\/p>\n

However, it’s his veteran leadership in the locker room and what he does off the field that makes him wanted. Cooks recently hosted a football camp in his hometown of Stockton, California, near the Bay Area, where he grew up watching Jerry Rice. Over 700 were in attendance at the sold-out camp, and given his upbringing and faith, Cooks feels a responsibility to not only give back to the community but the one he grew up in.<\/p>\n

Cooks said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital, “I think it’s huge. I think it’s always important that you give back, but especially to the community that had an impact on you, you grew up in. Being from Stockton, wouldn’t change it for the world, love the place with all my heart. To be able to inspire kids and continue to give them hope and get them to come back and show face, I think, is important.” The camp was sponsored by He Gets Us, a movement that its agenda, per its site, says is to “move beyond the mess of our current cultural moment to a place where all of us are invited to rediscover the love story of Jesus \u2013 Christians, non-Christians, and everybody in between.”<\/p>\n

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