Chiefs' Leonard Pope saves 6-year-old boy from drowning in pool
Leonard Pope has 78 career receptions in the NFL. But perhaps his most significant catch arrived final weekend when he rescued a 6-year-old boy through the deep end of the pool in Georgia.
Pope jumped in to rescue 6-year-old Bryson Moore when he observed the kid struggling.
"As he was just tumbling around within the h2o, you know, he kind of misplaced his footing and he went sliding within the deep end a little bit," Pope informed NFL Network (video clip beneath).
"And that is when I heard his mother, Anne, yell and I was on my way out the home and I just went for this."
Anne Moore has been a longtime buddy of Pope, a tight end for the Kansas Town Chiefs.
She was jubilant that Pope was there to assist her son.
"All of a sudden, I saw Bryson going down in the h2o and I started screaming," Moore told the Americus Times Recorder.
"Leonard was within, and he arrived from nowhere and dove into the water without any hesitation, cell phone in his pocket and all. He saved my son's existence, and I'm so thankful that he was there for me and my kid."
She informed the paper Bryson was doing Ok following the traumatic incident.
Pope jumped at a moment's notice to help the boy, which price him a number of his materials possessions as he got wet.
"No, everything," he said about what was in his pockets. "Cell telephone, wallet, you know it did not truly issue simply because at that time that is a life around the line and it just had to get carried out." Hopeful’ brand-new CBA cope can be called
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