HOLLAND, Mich. -- They hung on every word, attention locked on the man in the black bucket hat and blue T-shirt with a logo that matched the ones they wore.
On the final Friday night in June, Kirk Cousins sat back on the cold tile floor inside the Dow Center at Hope College, home to his annual youth football camp, and casually chatted with a group of eighth-grade boys. Soon, the two sides split up for a couple games of dodgeball, with Cousins joining his fellow counselors to display the proper manner in which to army crawl to safety and avoid getting pegged.