How Mike Evans influenced Drake London's game

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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- When Drake London was being recruited, he heard from coaches all over the country trying to get him to campus. How they pitched him, the conversations they had, very often were similar.

One coach was a little bit different. He'd worked with Mike Evans when Evans was at Texas A&M and he knew Evans was one of the receivers London looked up to. So he connected them on the phone. It was a short conversation, more an encouragement than anything else, but it stuck.

London didn't end up at that recruiter's school, but the small relationship with Evans remained.

"He would say like, 'Keep going,' stuff like that," London said. "Just, good job. He…