These are some of the ways NFL players plan to celebrate Mother’s Day this year.

A sampling of Mother’s Day gifts…and memories…from NFL players:

THE ROOKIE GOURMET: Just call him TODD "EMERIL" HEAP. The Baltimore Ravens’ tight end, the team’s first-round selection in the 2001 NFL Draft, knows how to please his mother DEENA – cousin of former Dallas Cowboys quarterback DANNY WHITE. When it came time to pick a college, Heap decided to stay close to home (Mesa, Arizona), choosing Arizona State and making mom happy. But he added to that by making it a Heap Mother’s Day tradition to cook up a complete gourmet meal for mom.

TEXANS’ BIG HEART: They don’t play their first game until 2002. But the staff of the expansion HOUSTON TEXANS won’t let that stop them from making the week leading up to Mother’s Day a memorable one for mothers.

The Texans will visit Houston’s Ben Taub Hospital on May 10 to pass out Texans teddy bears to those mothers who will be hospitalized on Mother’s Day.

PETALS FROM THE BROWNS: Don’t think linemen can’t be sensitive. Take the Cleveland Browns. Tackles ROMAN OBEN and ROSS VERBA and defensive end STALIN COLINET will be getting mom bouquets and more this Sunday. Oben will "shower my mom MARIE with flowers" and Colinet will spoil his mother MERCEDES with red roses, and then both will take their moms to a scrumptious brunch. Verba will have "lots of flowers" delivered to his mother ROSLYN, and then spend the day with her.

MOM…& POP’S…DAY: SYLVESTER MORRIS is wrapping two presents in one big package!

The Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver – taking care of Mother’s, and Father’s, Days -- is having a house built for his parents, CYNTHIA and SYLVESTER, SR., to thank them for their guidance throughout his life.

"My mother and father were always behind me and steered me in the right direction," says Morris. "I felt the house was the least that I could do for all of their hard work."

SEHORN MAKES A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY: For the third time, New York Giants cornerback JASON SEHORN plans to surprise a single mother with the down payment on a fully-furnished, stocked-refrigerator home.

Adapting the "Homes for the Holidays" program of Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back WARRICK DUNN – and with help from an NFL Charities grant -- Sehorn will surprise a mother with a new house on Thursday, May 17 in Newark, New Jersey at the New Community Center housing project.

"The true merit of an athlete is not only what you do on the field, but off it," says Sehorn.

CHRIS THE POET: Think Tennessee Titans Wide Receiver Chris Sanders isn't romantic? 

His plan for wife (and mother of his two children) Stacie this Sunday is to take her to an intimate, romantic restaurant and read poetry to her while they dine.

THANKS, MOM: Ask Tennessee Titans wide receiver KEVIN DYSON about his fondest memory of his mother SUSAN and he’ll tell you about his freshman year at Utah when mom ordered him to stop whining.

In a phone conversation with his mother, Dyson was complaining about his play and talking about leaving college to return home to Clearfield, Utah.

"I’m not catching the ball," he whined to Susan. "Nothing’s going right. I’m ready to quit and come home."

Mom’s reaction? A threat.

"Don’t come home," Susan ordered. "That scholarship is valuable. If you throw it away by walking out, you’re not coming here to live."

O…K, Mom. Rededicated, Dyson turned into an All-Western Athletic Conference receiver, and went on to be part of two of the most memorable plays in NFL history – his Titans’ "Music City Miracle" TD runback to clinch a 1999 AFC Wild Card game, followed by his one-yard-short stretch for the goal line at the end of Super Bowl XXXIV.

THANKS, MOM II: Washington Redskins running back STEPHEN DAVIS tells a similar story to Dyson’s.

In his sophomore year in high school, Davis’ mother VIRGINIA was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"I took it pretty bad," recalls Davis. "I wanted to quit" to stay home and care for his mother. "But what she said always sticks in the back of my mind, especially when things aren’t going my way – ‘Never quit doing something you’ve started.’

"I got more serious about playing football, and my schooling," Davis continues. "Sometimes I could be hard-headed. In the neighborhood I grew up in, there was a lot of temptation, a lot of peer pressure. Without her, I wouldn’t be here today."