Preview: Sean McDermott ’98 | W&M Alumni

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott ’98 credits William & Mary for sharpening traits critical to his success in coaching, such as professionalism, resilience, a strong work ethic and a collaborative spirit. He also sees these traits in Joe Brady ’13, DJ Mangas ’12 and Christian Taylor ’07, all former W&M players and coaches he hired to join his staff in recent years.

“Nobody wants to be the best more than I do, but bigger than that is the mark that we make and the platform that I’ve been given to use the right way to help others and for them to see what it looks like, for a William & Mary student to see me and say, ‘I can do that; I can become the top in my profession and go about it the right way,’” McDermott says. “If they can say that Sean McDermott went about it the right way, that’s good enough for me.”

Read more in “Buffalo Brotherhood” in the fall edition of the W&M Alumni Magazine.