FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — This is one story Candice Lee is happy to watch from the sideline.
For 21 years, she’s served as a mentor, an inspiration and her son’s biggest cheerleader. But on the biggest stage of his adult life, she was content to stand in the shadows.
On Thursday night, the Jets selected her son, Darron, a former Ohio State linebacker, with the 20th overall pick in the NFL Draft. And as always, his mother — a weekend news anchor for WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio — was standing nearby.
“[She’s played] a huge role,” Lee said during his introductory news conference at the Jets’ facility Friday.