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DeAndre Levy has kept busy off the field while sidelined by knee and quad injuries.

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ALLEN PARK - DeAndre Levy has been keeping busy off the field while sidelined with knee and quad injuries.

The Detroit Lions linebacker has raised more than $30,000 for Enough SAID - Enough Sexual Assault In Detroit - according to ESPN.com.

Enough SAID is trying to test more than 11,000 neglected rape kits and then investigate the findings, according to ESPN, and Levy has helped the cause by speaking out about it while spearheading a campaign to distribute T-shirts with the message "Our Issue" on the front.

"There's a lot of effects to it, and this is one of those things where we have to create a culture where we're supportive, men, women and children who decide to report, stand up and say something, they do the right thing," Levy told ESPN. "Their evidence is sitting in a warehouse for 20 years or whatever. ... It's just unbelievable.

"That's something that you really wouldn't believe to be true. I reached out to them earlier this year and this came about later. I saw a lot of the work that they were doing and it just made sense to me."

Testing one of the rape kits costs $490, according to ESPN, and Enough SAID has tested approximately 10,900 of the 11,341 kits that have been uncovered since the project began in 2011.