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Vikings' K.J. Osborn helped save man from burning car in Texas

K.J. Osborn was, in his words, in the "right place at the right time" early Monday morning in Austin, Texas.

The Minnesota Vikings receiver joined three other bystanders in rescuing a man from a burning car underneath a freeway overpass.

Osborn first revealed the story Monday afternoon in a podcast interview with ESPN's Adam Schefter. According to a statement released Tuesday by police in Austin, the man was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

"They always say, 'Wrong place wrong time,'" Osborn told Schefter. "But I was at the exact right place at the right time.