GREEN BAY, Wis. – Ka’dar Hollman sent his old high school coach, Tom Maderia, a message shortly after last month’s NFL draft -- a simple thank-you note for what Maderia did for Hollman back at Burlington Township in New Jersey.
And one that was completely unnecessary in Maderia’s mind.
“You don’t have to thank me,” Maderia said he told Hollman. “All I did was coach you in high school. What you did once you left here, you did it.”
And then Maderia paused as he considered everything Hollman did from the time he left Burlington to the day he became a sixth-round pick of the Green Bay Packers.