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Denson has adorned his pump with SpongeBob SquarePants stickers — a seemingly odd choice for a 5-foot-10, 230-pound linebacker who wears a perpetual scowl on the football field. But the stickers were a gift from a five-year-old diabetes patient who Denson met through his work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in his home state of Michigan.

“He had SpongeBob on his pump and I thought it was cool,” Denson says. “A few weeks later, his family sent me some stickers in the mail so I thought it was only right that I put them on my pump, too.”