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stillers4me
05-03-2015, 08:57 AM
The knock against receiver Sammie Coates, who lasted until the third round of the NFL draft despite impressive size, speed and strength, is he dropped the ball too often during his career at Auburn.


Fortunately for the Tigers, he didn’t drop it when it counted.


When he was a senior three-sport athlete at Leroy (Ala.) High School, Coates nearly slept through a Saturday morning tryout at Auburn’s final summer football camp in July 2011. And it wasn’t by accident. Coates, who had already committed to Southern Mississippi, simply didn’t want to go.


But one of his high school teammates, Andrew Williams, climbed through a window into Coates’ house, woke his slumbering friend and begged him to go with him to the camp.


Coates went with Williams, posted a couple of sub-4.4 times in the 40-yard dash and wowed the Auburn coaching staff. That same day, he changed his commitment from Southern Mississippi to Auburn and never looked back.


“I'm telling you, I didn't want to get out of bed for nothing; I wasn’t going to go,” Coates said in an interview with AuburnSports.com. “It was one of the best things that ever happened in my life and for my future. I thank Andrew.”..............

Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/05/03/coates-profile-for-sunday/stories/201505030185

hawaiiansteeler
05-03-2015, 10:04 PM
David Todd ‏@DavidMTodd -

Maybe #Steelers should flip Golson & Coates. Then they’d have a big physical corner w ok hands & a slot receiver who catches everything.

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