Jerrell Freeman was just on his way to Chicago Bears training camp when he noticed a fellow airline passenger struggling to breathe.
An older woman tried to perform the Heimlich maneuver, but was unsuccessful. That's when the 6-foot, 236-pound linebacker stepped in.
"I grabbed him and tried to squeeze the life out of him," Freeman told the Chicago Tribune's Dan Wiederer. "You've got to push in and up. So I did that and he started throwing up what he was choking on. I asked him if he was all right and he shook his head like 'No!