It’s a special relationship between a coach and player when it lasts beyond their time working on the same team. That’s how I would describe the bond between San Francisco 49ers newly acquired free agent wide receiver Pierre Garçon and Clyde Christensen, his first NFL wide receivers coach. Each of them is equally complimentary about the other when they describe one another.
Garçon’s early days in the league were shaped by the hard work that he and Christensen did together before the CBA limited what a player and coach could do in the offseason. What developed was not only a very productive receiver, but a relationship between a teacher and student that is as strong today as it was when the two grew together back in Indianapolis.