When Darrell Utley began his first American Sign Language lesson with a new student, he didn’t realize his client was a star football player.
“I had no idea what his walk of life was. I just knew he wanted to learn,” Utley told NPR’s Morning Edition.
DK Metcalf, a receiver with the Seattle Seahawks, was looking for an off-the-field distraction.
He told reporters that he’d taken an ASL course in college, and decided to take it a step further.
YouTube Video of DK Metcalf signing ‘my son’ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cT9m55SauI