In what could be his only season with Paris Johnson Jr. and Dawand Jones, Justin Frye is intent on maximizing both Buckeye tackles’ potential: “They just want to be great.”
As far as their projected career trajectories, Justin Frye can’t quite relate to Paris Johnson Jr. and Dawand Jones.in the class of 2020, Johnson has long been pegged as a potential first-round NFL draft pick. Josh Myers once said something would have to go wrong for the Cincinnati native not to win an Outland Trophy during his collegiate tenure.
“Personally, I wouldn't know . I was always, ‘He's a starter, he played a lot of games, he was tough.’ All those adjectives of, ‘He's a tough guy, he's a great kid, he's a smart football player,’ which really means you're just not good enough,” Frye said last month. “So I never had that problem. I would assume so. But Paris, Dawand, all those guys that are coming into the back end of their career now, start seeing the stuff, they're locked in.
By the sound of things this spring, Johnson and Jones aren’t cutting corners as they pursue the aforementioned objectives. But as successful as the Princeton High School alum is projected to be at his natural position, Jones said Johnson got off to a bit of a slow start in his transition this offseason. Frye sung Johnson’s praises following the spring game, but also insinuated it may take a bit more offseason development to truly unluck Johnson’s sky-high potential.
And while Frye may not know exactly what it’s like to be dealing with the expectations that Jones is, he certainly has made an impression on his new pupil and fellow Indiana native.
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