Two weeks ago, Utah defensive tackle Seni Fauonuku was playing video games with friends in his apartment when someone began banging on his door frantically.
A neighbor needed help: There was a man in another unit passed out on a La-Z-Boy, not breathing, slowly turning blue in the face.
Fauonuku rushed across the hallway.
"He looked dead to me when I first saw him," he said. "I thought he was gone."
A skill learned in childhood kicked in. Fauonuku's mother, Gena Newton, was a longtime nurse who had walked him through CPR techniques when he was young.