The timing of Leonard Johnson’s knee injury stunk worse than the smells on the plumbing job he took in the absence of football.
About two weeks before the 2022 draft and about two weeks after solidifying his status as a potential late-round pick at Duke’s Pro Day, Johnson’s leg buckled during lateral conditioning drills in a workout at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Leonard Johnson runs against the Pittsburgh Panthers during their game at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2019.A few months ago, he was removing the 100-pound lids on septic tanks and fixing leaky pipes near his home in northern Alabama. “I was about to get on a hospital elevator,” Johnson said. “If I would’ve been anywhere else, I probably would’ve just yelled. I was dumb excited.”In his final four seasons, Johnson started 39 and missed one of a possible 48 games.
Johnson’s mother, a retail manager at a Walmart distribution center, and his father, a construction worker who lays asphalt for interstate bridges, wanted their son to chase his dream. Johnson made enough of a strong impression that Burrow — a Cowboys fan — will be neutral if he is opposite Dak Prescott in the fall.Some included Saturday mornings, because the workload was too heavy to finish in five days.“If I got paid on Friday,” Johnson said, “after paying a couple bills, it could be gone by the next Friday easily.”
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