Being an NFL player is a prestigious profession, you immediately become admired and a local hero. That is why many of the players set up charitable events to give back to their home communities. Even the lesser known players can make a huge difference to the places they came from when they go back to help out.
Often times, one of the ways that they give back to their neighborhoods is by holding football camps for the kids that are still there. When Jalen Richard was signed as an undrafted free agent for the Oakland Raiders in 2016 he made a promise that he’d be back in two years time to run his own football camp.