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The Vikings fell short of their goal in the 2020 season, but quarterback Kirk Cousins will be active in a different fashion during the week leading up to Super Bowl LV.
Cousins joined NFL Network's Good Morning Football Monday to talk about a variety of topics, including his involvement as an ambassador through the NFL with International Justice Mission.
Based out of the Washington, D.C., area, IJM is a global organization that partners with local justice systems, community partners and advocates like Cousins to combat human trafficking.
Cousins explained the organization's emphasis during Super Bowl Week:
"International Justice Mission … is really the world's leader in combatting human trafficking, modern-day slavery," Cousins said. "There's currently 40 million people trapped in modern-day trafficking, so it's a very real problem. During Super Bowl Week, human trafficking occurs every single year in the host city. The NFL, to [its] credit, wants to bring attention to that.
"This is an issue of human trafficking that does occur domestically, but it operates in the darkness. It succeeds behind the scenes, so we want to bring it to the light," Cousins continued. "And we want to bring awareness to the issue, bring awareness to what International Justice Mission is doing all over the world and use the Super Bowl and the platform of football to be able to bring light to the issue."
GMFB's Peter Schrager thanked Cousins on behalf of himself and fellow hosts Kyle Brandt, Kay Adams and Nate Burleson.
"There's a lot of people who will be talking [during Super Bowl Week] about different products and different brands," Schrager said. "For you to devote your time to something like a mission that IJM does, it says a lot about you, and it says a lot about your mission and what you're all about."