When Justin Stepp was the wide receivers coach at SMU, he’d often have NFL scouts asking about Courtland Sutton, a prototype prospect at 6-foot-3, 220 pounds.

And sometimes they’d want the dirt on Sutton.

Coach Stepp’s answer: “Well, I named my son after him, so he’s probably not an (expletive).”

His son is 7 years old now, and Courtland Stepp is the biggest Courtland Sutton fan east of Colorado.

That’s the case when you’re named after an NFL wide receiver — and, as Justin Stepp put it, “one of the best human beings our family’s been lucky enough to know; as good as it gets.”

These days it’s Coach Stepp who is the Broncos fan. He’s already tripped to Broncos Park to sit in on meetings with two of his former players in the Broncos wide receivers room: Sutton, the veteran, and Pat Bryan

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