(CNN) No money can make up for the loss of a child, but NFL star DeAndre Hopkins says he hopes the donation of his playoff game check to the family of Jazmine Barnes will show how much the community supports them.

The star Houston Texans receiver told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Friday that he is not trying to get credit or "stars" for the gesture.

"Just trying to be a light, trying to help out the best way I can," he said.

Jazmine, 7, was killed last Sunday in a drive-by shooting near Houston.

"That could have been anyone in my family," Hopkins said, reiterating one of tweets in which he said that he thought of his own 5-year-old daughter when he saw a picture of Jazmine.

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