Former Ohio State Buckeye Mike Doss is spending his time before NFL training camp starts, teaching at youth football camps sponsored by NFL players.

Many of the players are former Buckeyes or former teammates of Doss when he

played safety for the Indianapolis Colts during his first four years in the

NFL.

On June 30^th Doss returned to

his hometown Canton, Ohio to hold the second annual Michael J. Doss Foundation

Make a Difference Youth Football Camp, with Heisman Trophy winner Troy

Smith in attendence.

The camp, held at Fawcett Stadium,

the site of the Pro Football

Hall of Fame game,  was free to

campers who ranged in age from 8-12 years old.

 One week later, Doss was in Newport News

Virginia as a guest of Washington Redskins cornerback David

Macklin, and his 27

Reasons

 football camp.  It

was the third year at the camp for Doss, who said he wanted to give the kids a

fresh face they are not use to

seeing. 

                                

"It's an opportunity to help a young kid who has never seen an NFL player,"

Doss told VirginiaPreps. "Not just

in my community, but in every community. That's why I'm here."

                                               

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Doss also participated in New Orleans Saints cornerback

Jason David's

Camp in Los

Angeles. "I'm

just trying to do my part and give back," said Doss. "The kids are our

future. This

is how we can give

back."                                

Doss,

one of the few athletes with both a National Championship ring and a Superbowl

Champion ring, signed a contract to play for the Minnesota Vikings in 2007. The

five-year veteran has 254 career tackles and seven career interceptions.