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REED’M…

AND WEEP

In this photo from Friday, Aug.
9, 2019, Pittsburgh Steelers
wide receivers coach Dar-
ryl Drake talks to a receiver
during the second half of an
NFL preseason football game
against the Tampa Bay Buc-
caneers in Pittsburgh.
Associated Press

Steelers wide

receivers

coach

Darryl Drake

dies at 62

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dar-
ryl Drake, the Pittsburgh
Steelers wide receivers
who spent more than 30
years molding players at
the position at the college
and professional level, has
died. He was 62.
The team said Drake, who
joined the coaching staff
in 2018, died early Sunday
morning.
"Darryl had such an impact
on the players he coached
and everyone he worked
with throughout his entire
career," Steelers president
Art Rooney II said. "He was
a passionate coach and
had a tremendous spirit to-
ward life, his family, his faith
and the game of football."
Drake, a native of Louis-
ville, Kentucky, played col- Reed wins The Northern
legiately at Western Ken-
tucky. He spent one season Trust at Liberty National
in the Canadian Football
League and participated
in a pair of NFL training
camps before returning to Patrick Reed holds the FedEx Cup Trophy after winning the Northern Trust golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course, Sunday,
Western Kentucky to pur- Aug. 11, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J.
sue a master's degree. Associated Press
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