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Michigan QB Dylan McCaffrey hailed a hero for helping rescue man in Colorado

Michigan quarterback Dylan McCaffrey and his brothers are being called heroes this week after they rescued a man who fell 25 feet climbing in Colorado.

According to KDVR-TV, the Fox affiliate in Denver, Colorado, McCaffrey and his older brothers Max and Christian were climbing in Castle Rock when 72-year-old Dan Smoker fell trying to climb down.

"I heard what sounded like a shoe slipping on some rock and then I heard him say, 'Oh,'" Elijah Smoker, the 13-year-old grandson who accompanied Smoker on the trip, told KDVR.

"It sounded like this voice, and then I turn around about halfway through his fall and I see him hit the ground.