Camryn Bynum

No. 0 · 6th season

Bynum goes back every offseason, and this time he's bringing more than himself

The NFL offseason looks different for Camryn Bynum. While a lot of players are hitting the gym circuit or making media rounds, Bynum heads to the Philippines.

Bynum is half-Filipino, and that side of his identity has stayed with him through his football career. The Philippines isn't a vacation destination for him — it's home in a real sense, somewhere he returns to when the season is done.

This trip, he's going with something specific on his mind. Bynum plans to help address the lack of clean water affecting communities there, a problem tied to broken pipes and infrastructure that doesn't get fixed on its own.

There's a version of professional athlete charity that looks good in a photo and doesn't go much further. This feels like something else — a person going back to a place that made them, trying to leave it a little better.

What he builds there, off the field and far from a press box, might end up being the thing that follows him longest.

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