Vikings wide receiver KJ Osborn helped save a man from a burning car: 'Right place, right time.'

• Vikings wide receiver KJ Osborn helped save a man's life on Sunday night, pulling him out of a burning car.
• Osborn says he was at the right place at the right time to help prevent a tragedy.

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver KJ Osborn helped save a man's life on Sunday night in Austin, Texas.

As Osborn was taking an Uber ride home for the night, he and his driver saw a car crash set on fire.

"It was a situation I never imagined myself in, in a million, billion years," Osborn told ESPN's Adam Schefter on his podcast.

Osborn's driver pulled over, and the pair, along with the two people in another car that had stopped to help, jumped into action.

"We went over to the area and his car is in flames. Immediately I'm thinking, this is a big risk," Osborn told Schefter.

"I'm coming up to this car; I don't have experience in this. In my head, I'm thinking this car can blow up at any second, and it could all be over. That's what I was thinking. But my Uber driver, he went right up to the car, he opened the door, he's trying to see if this guy is alive. I'm like, Man, this guy is brave."

Osborn and his Uber driver were able to make contact with the driver of the crashed car, who was alive, but clearly dazed. The injured driver was able to shuffle himself over to the passenger's side of the car, at which point Osborn was able to pull him out and carry him away from danger.

"We initially pulled him out of the car. The car is burning up. He's got blood on him, he's bleeding. He's obviously out of it," Osborn explained. "At that time, I'm just trying to get out of the way of the car. I'm thinking it's going to blow at any second. That's what you see in the movies."

Osborn was able to carry the injured driver far enough away from the car to be safe from further danger, and at that point firefighters and an ambulance had arrived to help.

For Osborn, it was a case of being at the right place at right time, which he told Schefter and shared in his social media posts about the experience.

"Most of the time the saying goes 'wrong place, wrong time.' But this time I believe God had me, us, at the right place at the exact right time," Osborn wrote on Instagram.

"Last night myself and these 3 absolute hero's helped save a mans life by rescuing him from a vehicle up in flames after a bad crash. A situation I'd never imagine being apart of in a million years.

"I'll leave you with this. God is real. And His LOVE is real. He will send his angels to be camped around you and provide you with his grace and mercy."

Indeed, Osborn's presence at that moment was the result of serendipity.

Osborn was in Texas for off-season training, but he normally spends much of his time training in Miami, where he went to college. Further, Osborn had actually missed his first Uber home that night.

"If I had made my first Uber, I don't know if I would have been able to be there for him, or my Uber driver," Osborn said.

The event was undoubtedly traumatic. Osborn told Schefter that he thought he would shake off the evening, but had struggled to sleep in the hours after the ordeal. He also said he plans to check in on both the driver and the other people present at the scene in the coming days.

"I pride myself in being big and strong. I'm finishing my masters at Miami in criminal justice," Osborn told Schefter. "I want to be like FBI or secret service, things like that. And that was kind of that type of situation. And I'm like, Wow, that was live bullets.

"As I look back on it, I'm just grateful that I was in a position to help him, along with the three other heroes that were there," Osborn said.

"It was definitely the most crazy experience of my life for sure."