CB Tay Gowan now teammates with CB coach raved about
The Arizona Cardinals added two cornerbacks to their roster through the NFL draft last month. They selected Marco Wilson in the fourth round after trading up to do so and selected Tay Gowan in the sixth round.
Little would they know that the two players had a connection without ever having met.
They shared a position coach — Corey Bell, who was assistant defensive backs coach at Florida during Wilson’s freshman year and then cornerbacks coach at UCF from 2018-2020.
Gowan’s one year playing au UCF was in 2019.
Bell would use tape of Wilson as a freshman with teammate C.J. Henderson, now with the Jacksonville Jaguars after he was selected in the first round in 2020.
“All Coach Bell in our meetings would talk about is Marco — like ‘Marco, Marco, Marco,'” Gowan recalled when he spoke with reporters last week. “I’m like. ‘who is that Marco kid he’s talking about?’ So I go and search up Marco I’m like, ‘OK, Marco is a really great player.
“Then we get drafted and it just crazy that all I’ve been hearing about is Marco, Marco, Marco, and now I’m playing with him.”
Wilson, when he spoke with reporters, said both Gowan and Coach Bell had told him about using him as an example at UCF.
“I’m glad I was able to play very well and use my tape to help others get better as well,” Wilson said.
The two will see a lot of each other and will be connected as long as they are on the team. Wilson is highly regarded by the Cardinals and Gowan is viewed by others outside the organization as a potential draft steal.
Now they will be able to learn from each other’s play.
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