Darryl Drake’s coaching and friendship had an impact on almost a countless number of people. New Pittsburgh Steelers’ wide receiver coach Bryan McClendon is one of those people.
McClendon spent just one summer in the NFL, a UDFA signed by the Chicago Bears in the summer of 2006. He would be released and begin his coaching journey but for those couple of months, his position coach was Darryl Drake.
It began a friendship that lasted more than a decade.
In this Athens Banner-Herald 2015 feature piece when McClendon was shifted to WRs coach at Georgia, they offer this nugget about those two.