Jadeveon Clowney Filled Trash Cans He Received From Jaguars Fans With Gifts for Low-Income Families

Jadeveon Clowney received a bunch of trash cans from Jaguars fans after he called Blake Bortles trash, so he turned the situation into a positive one.

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JACKSONVILLE, FL - DECEMBER 17: Jadeveon Clowney #90 of the Houston Texans warms up on the field prior to the start of a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at EverBank Field on December 17, 2017 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Logan Bowles/Getty Images)

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This weekend, after the Jacksonville Jaguars roughed up the Houston Texans in decisive, 45-7 fashion, Texans defensive end Jadeveon Clowney was not very happy. Clowney caused a minor stir when he said Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles, who has looked competent recently, is "trash."

They were both top picks in the 2014 draft—Clowney went No. 1, and Bortles went No. 2 (with Greg Robinson wedged between them)—and both have had mostly successful careers thus far, so it was surprising to see Clowney take that shot. 

Bortles brushed off the remark.

"I've heard a lot of stuff," he said. "I'd imagine the stuff I didn't see somebody told me [about]. I'm sure there are things out there that I have no idea about. But I could care less. If how we're playing and how I'm playing is trash, then I'm fine with being trash."

Jaguars fans, however, jumped to their quarterback's defense. They began ordering trash cans and having them delivered to the Texans' facility, NRG Stadium—to the attention, of course, of Clowney. Clowney has put the orders to good use, though.

He decided to fill the trash cans with toys and donate them to women and children at Mission of Yahweh, a Houston faith-based shelter.

Thank you @Jaguars fans for sending trash cans to NRG! It inspired me to fill them and an entire truck with toys to turn a negative situation into a blessing for some deserving women and children at @MissionOfYahweh #turningtrashintotreasure #merrychristmas pic.twitter.com/LamHoDSLEk

This is great PR. Clowney was probably going to donate the gifts anyway, and he decided to incorporate the trash cans to take the edge off his shot at Bortles. Give this man's marketing team a raise.

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