Arizona Cardinals wide receiver KeeSean Johnson and wide receivers coach David Raih didn’t cross paths professionally until Raih was coaching for the Cardinals until after Johnson’s final season at Fresno State University. However, the two actually met socially before either had any connections to the Cardinals.
Before joining head coach Kliff Kingsbury’s staff, Raih was a receivers coach for the Green Bay Packers and one of his receivers was Davante Adams.
Adams played collegiately at Fresno State where Johnson followed him. They were never teammates but they knew each other. Johnson actually broke Adams’ record there.
That’s where the connection between Johnson and Raih begins. Johnson told reporters how the two met “randomly when he was coaching for Green Bay.”
“He was coaching Davante Adams,” Johnson recalled. “I was actually at his (Adams’) wedding and Coach Raih was his coach, so he was there. “We met at the wedding and had a brief conversation. It was a coincidence that he was the coach when I got to Arizona.”