October 29, 2025
NFL Star Discovers Mentor Was His Dad
How Football Coach Sherman Smith Became the Biological Father His Player Deland McCullough Never Knew He Had When Deland McCullough, a man who built his life around football, sat down across from Sherman Smith a couple of years ago, he thought he was talking to a lifelong mentor. What he discovered instead was that the man who had coached him, supported him and treated him like a son for decades was his biological father. It sounds like the kind of plot Hollywood would spin, but for them — this is real life. Deland was adopted at birth and raised in












