Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Darqueze Dennard helped an Ohio family in dire need of a home this week.

Through his foundation and the work of numerous local businesses, Dennard gifted a family in Cheviot, about 10 miles northwest of the Bengals’ facility, with a renovated house.

Via WLWT, Build A Place to Call Home, a program of Dennard Difference, the 27-year-old’s foundation, purchased, renovated and furnished a home over the past 18 months, and on Wednesday, the family got the keys.

The Tremble-Israel family has nine children, ranging in age from 4 to 18. Dennard’s website says the family matriarch adopted her daughter’s children after her daughter died, and now that woman is battling cancer.

Bengals CB Darqueze Dennard gave a renovated home to a family in need on Wednesday. (AP) More

“I’ve never been so blessed,” Eli’yah Bell Israel, the children’s father, said.

A first-round pick in 2014, Dennard bought his mother and sisters a home when he was drafted, and takes pride in paying back.

“A lot of people helped me [become] the person I am today, and I know what type of effect it had on me,” Dennard said. “I know how it is to not have a home; I’m a living testimony that anything you want in life is possible.

“It’s surreal, the things my foundation can do to help kids and their family.”

Dennard signed a one-year contract to remain with the Bengals in March.

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