Patriots star helps rescue trapped driver after AFC title win

FOXBORO -- Just hours after helping lead the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl, defensive star Vince Wilfork performed some heroics off the field, CBS Boston reports.

Massachusetts State Police said that at 12:45 a.m. Monday, troopers responded to a rollover on Route 1 in Foxboro. There they found Wilfork checking on the driver of a 2015 Jeep Wrangler that had rolled on its side.

The driver, 38-year-old Mary Ellen Brooks of Hanson, who would later be charged with drunken driving, couldn't get out of the vehicle, police said. That's when the defensive tackle offered her a hand.

"Trooper Kenneth Proulx stated that he held the driver's door of the vehicle open, and Vince Wilfork reached in and helped lift the operator out of the vehicle with one hand," police said in a statement. "Mr. Wilfork departed after ensuring the troopers didn't need any further assistance."

Brooks was then arrested and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.