PHILADELPHIA — Eagles security Rodney McLeod was named the 2022 NFLPA Alan Web page Neighborhood Award winner Wednesday.
The NFLPA is donating $100,000 to Change Our Future, the inspiration run by McLeod and his wife, Erika.
“I’m humbled to obtain such a prestigious award,” McLeod stated by way of a press release launched by the NFLPA. “This award is actually all in regards to the neighborhood. And once I hear the phrase ‘neighborhood,’ unity, hope and love additionally come to thoughts.”
The Alan Web page Neighborhood Award, described by the NFLPA because the group’s “highest honor,” acknowledges one participant annually who “demonstrates a profound dedication to positively impacting his staff’s metropolis and communities throughout the nation.”
McLeod’s basis hosted the inaugural Artwork & Sole Sneaker Ball in December, elevating greater than $205,000 in direction of STEM and Black historical past curriculum in native faculties. In addition they collected 150 toys and 250 new pairs of sneakers to donate to households in want for the vacations on the occasion.
This fall, he pledged $20,000 to the Structure Excessive College and Hill-Freedman World Academy in Philadelphia to assist fund instructional applications.
McLeod, 31, is the fifth Eagles participant to win the award, becoming a member of Malcolm Jenkins, Chris Lengthy, Brian Dawkins and Troy Vincent.
Supply: ESPN
