Aaron Curry Bringing Leukemia Survivor With Him to NFL Draft

Aaron Curry is considered the "safest pick" in this year's NFL Draft. It's for several reasons: he started all but one game in his three-year, redshirt career at Wake Forest, he plays a position that doesn't scream "NFL downside" like, say, quarterback, and perhaps most importantly, everyone is aware that he's just a good person.

This became all the more evident during a recent radio interview with Mike Tirico and Scott Van Pelt on ESPN Radio (autoplay) when Curry was asked about bringing a leukemia survivor and a patient at St. Jude's Children's Hospital with him to the NFL Draft on Saturday.

One goal was to be in New York and I was speaking with my agent and I told him I wanted to do something special, something unique, but I didn't want it to be the Aaron Curry Show. And I wanted to start my career off by giving back to the community. So he had the idea of the St. Jude's Children Hospital and he was giving me some advice and some opinions, so I decided to go pick a child and allow them to experience my personal experience. And I went down to Memphis last Monday and we had already picked Bryson but he didn't know it yet and he was giving me a tour of the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and I just popped the question on him ...

Tirico and Van Pelt followed up with the natural "reaction question," and clearly, the young man in question was beyond elated to find out that he would be attending the NFL Draft with Curry.

Let's be honest here: the level of awesomeness (and humility) that comes with pushing the limelight -- on arguably the biggest day of Curry's life -- away from oneself and sharing it with a young child who has survived a terminal illness is, well, touching.

And while I don't mean to heap too much praise on Curry for doing this (there are certainly plenty of people in the world who act just as selflessly but never receive the accolades), this is exactly the sort of way that everyone says our athletes should act. Frankly, Curry deserves some credit for being a superior human being in addition to being a tremendous athlete.