If Cal safety Craig Woodson gets drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, there won’t be the need for an introduction between himself and his positional coach. Because it’ll be the man who recruited him to college and coached him during his freshman season. New Steelers’ defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander convinced Woodson to make the trip from Texas to California, spending the 2019 season together before Alexander left for the NFL. But in just a year, Alexander transformed Woodson’s career.
“He taught me the game, for real,” Alexander tells reporters, including our own Joe Clark, at the NFL Combine.