Coach Sean McDermott on how the Bills’ unbelievable start, support from Belichick and the Patriots, and the first time he heard about a draft prospect named Damar Hamlin.
Sean McDermott was making calls to rifle through potential draft picks—always an important piece of the process for the Bills coach, but even moreso during a 2021 evaluation cycle still affected by the pandemic.
Some of those calls wind up being more memorable than others. And as such, there was one name McDermott knew to jot down after going down a checklist of players with Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi.