One man was unconscious in the water, only being kept afloat by a life jacket. Another man was trying to drag him back to the boat. And two women were waving frantically for help.
“They were saying to call 9-1-1, we think he’s having a heart attack,” Todd recalled.
Before his boat had even stopped moving, Todd leaped into the river and swam over to the other watercraft.
“They weren’t able to pull the guy up from the water because he was a bigger guy,” Todd said.
Having a 6-foot-6, 314-pound offensive lineman on the scene improved the situation dramatically.
“Moving someone who is unconscious in the water is very hard,” Jake Fischer, a corporal with the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Unit, told Warchant. “If it was anybody else, it would have been very difficult to get him back in the boat. And they said Jayden just did it with ease. Him being able to do that was a huge part of saving that guy.”