Talk to any teacher whose students come back to say “thank you.”
It’s invariably a lump-in-the-throat moment.
LeVar Woods got a double dose Tuesday. Woods? He was a student-athlete at Iowa who followed his bliss to the NFL — where he played seven years as a linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions and Tennessee Titans.
He is now back at his alma mater as special teams coordinator. But before he got that assignment, he coached tight ends. One of his students was a young man named George Kittle who was the 49ers’ fifth-round choice in the 2017 draft.