What do you do when you successfully raise your son to be drafted in the NFL?

You keep working.

Kim Yeldon, of Daphne, joined her son T.J. Yeldon, Alabama football alum and Jacksonville Jaguars player, at the Ruff Wilson Youth Center in Daphne last week to greet children and pass out 150 book bags full of school supplies.

Kim stuffed every single one.

“I love having him home. But he aggravates me,” she said with a smile. “T.J. is still T.J. He didn’t change.”

The event was a family affair as several family members and close friends came to cheer on T.J. and the kids at the center where he spent many of his afterschool and summer hours as a youth. Yeldon passed out autographs, brought the kids lunch and snow cones and passed out the book bags.

“It’s always good to come here and be with them and give them someone to look up to,” he said of the visit.

Many of the children already knew Yeldon as a neighbor or family friend. Others were a little star struck.

“This is cool,” said Morris Davis, 7. “He’s the best football player in the world.”

Yeldon, who graduated from Daphne High School in 2012, was in town to help host a football camp last week with fellow Alabama and NFL players and said he hopes to make the summer camp an annual event.

The running back said he remembers meeting his first professional football player as a child – Kenny King, who played for Alabama and the Arizona Cardinals.

“He was big,” Yeldon said. “But when you are a little kid everyone looks big.”

Yeldon said he enjoys the trips home, away from the bright lights and attention of the field.

“It’s good to get away and be around love and family,” he said.

His advice for young players?

“It’s not about your size. It’s about your heart,” he said. “Keep working hard. You are going to be put down a lot of times. Keep fighting through. Keep working.”