During his 2023 healthy season, when the Wolverines won a national title, Johnson only granted 17 receptions over 37 targets all season and no affected. He was an All-American from the first team.
Johnson had nine interceptions in 32 career games for Michigan, making three for affected. He qualified a closing corner and a game changer, and “that’s what I come to do right away”.
“I’m where I have to be,” said Johnson. “I’m happy to be a cardinal now.”
Gannon was fell from his players’s texts after Johnson’s choice, delighted that the cardinals had taken him. The selection of the first round, Walter Nolen III, asked for Johnson’s number, and Gannon sent him, warning Nolen that Johnson was not in the best mood.
Nolen’s response? “Don’t worry a coach. I’m going to talk to him.”
“It will be a very united team, they have been for two years, and we will continue to add people who will add to this,” said Gannon.
The corner of the corner half has been flooded since Gannon – a long -standing trainer of the files – arrived, the team writing Garrett Williams, Max Melton, Elijah Jones and Kei’Trel Clark, finding Starling Thomas V on derogations and signing Sean Murphy -Bunting.
But the cardinals by drafting another in the second round were not a shock.
“It’s about winning,” said Williams before the draft. “Whatever they like, helps us to gain the most, that’s what it will be. It doesn’t make me feel in a way, because we are all trying to win. It’s all the interest of being here. Whoever who is
It will be the message for Johnson, who trained in Arizona before the draft and a golf with the new teammate of Cardinals Marvin Harrison Jr., to the point that they talked about being in the same NFL team.
But for the moment, he will absorb the joy of finding his professional house while going beyond the frustration of falling further than what he expected.
“It is one of these nightmares that you never want to have taken place,” said Johnson, who is certain that he will end up as the flight of the draft. “But that will make a better situation from everything, so I’m not too worried about it now. I’m ready to prove it.”
“I’m on a mission now,” he added. “It really woke me up for sure.”
Ossenfort said that the cardinals had had offers when they were going to choose at 47, but they decided that they prefer to choose Johnson rather than come back and get an additional choice of draft. The same thing occurred when the cardinals were on the chronometer at n ° 78, when they again avoided offers and took the secondary second -round Oregon with their third round choice.
