FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — When Darron Lee, the Jets’ No. 1 pick, showed up in a purplish suit for his first news conference on Friday, his mother, Candice, wearing glasses and with her hair pulled back after a sleepless night, quietly took a spot in the back of the room, behind the cameras.
That was a bit of a change for Candice Lee, who is a weekend anchor for WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio — not far from the Ohio State campus, where her son became a top linebacker.