The tapes
5'9, 205-209 lbs
4.60 speed
20 Bench rep
35 Vert
Games reviewed (in chronological order):
Houston (07)
Washington, USC, UCLA, California, Oregon St., Okla. St.
A poor man Slaton.
Positives:
Very shifty runner. Nice juke moves, double move, a nice 360 spin move on the run, things that can catch a defender flat footed.
Good lateral movement. Good balance and body control.
If there's a hole at the LOS, he has a good chance to make the defender at the next level miss.
Has a very good stiff arm to fend off defender, while maintaining his balance and preserve speed much as possible.
http://www.myspace.com/jjstiffarm
Good ball security.
Knows how to use his blockers.
Can be used as a punt returner or kick returner due to his ability to
find the seam and make guys miss.
Negatives:
Can be caught from behind as his straight line speed indicated
(bringing him down is another matter.)
For a small guy who's supposed to run with low center of gravity, I would have preferred to see him lower his pads a bit more in the middle of the pack.
Did not look very good in his timing as when to spring out for the screen pass or as the check down receiver in the flat, and did not locate proper spacing.
That prohibited the QB to use him in those instances during the season opener (probably due to being out of football for a while.)
Was not used as a blocker much and was marginal at the beginning of the season, probably for the same reason.
Jeremiah did improve tremendously as the season moved along, especially in his reads and skills as a receiver out of the backfield.
Will need to learn not to spend too much time in his own backfield (should be fixable.)
Backgrounds:
Had a torn ACL midway through the 07 season.
Came back from off-season nicely with 125 yards on 15 carries in the season opener.
Also had a 55 yd TD run called back by a touchy holding call on the receiver trying to block.
Johnson's shoulder popped out of its socket against Utah State after only one 37-yard carry, however, making scouts wonder if he was injury-prone.
But he returned with two one-hundred-yd games the following two weeks,
and played in every game en route to 2008 second-team All-Pac 10 honors,
gaining 1,201 rushing yards, scoring 13 touchdowns and averaging an outstanding 7.1 yards per carry.
Johnson's TDs in 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXmhMBnAQU
A few other highlights (don't pay no attention to the tales of the tapes.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhvFsttcqY&feature=related
5'9, 205-209 lbs
4.60 speed
20 Bench rep
35 Vert
Games reviewed (in chronological order):
Houston (07)
Washington, USC, UCLA, California, Oregon St., Okla. St.
A poor man Slaton.
Positives:
Very shifty runner. Nice juke moves, double move, a nice 360 spin move on the run, things that can catch a defender flat footed.
Good lateral movement. Good balance and body control.
If there's a hole at the LOS, he has a good chance to make the defender at the next level miss.
Has a very good stiff arm to fend off defender, while maintaining his balance and preserve speed much as possible.
http://www.myspace.com/jjstiffarm
Good ball security.
Knows how to use his blockers.
Can be used as a punt returner or kick returner due to his ability to
find the seam and make guys miss.
Negatives:
Can be caught from behind as his straight line speed indicated
(bringing him down is another matter.)
For a small guy who's supposed to run with low center of gravity, I would have preferred to see him lower his pads a bit more in the middle of the pack.
Did not look very good in his timing as when to spring out for the screen pass or as the check down receiver in the flat, and did not locate proper spacing.
That prohibited the QB to use him in those instances during the season opener (probably due to being out of football for a while.)
Was not used as a blocker much and was marginal at the beginning of the season, probably for the same reason.
Jeremiah did improve tremendously as the season moved along, especially in his reads and skills as a receiver out of the backfield.
Will need to learn not to spend too much time in his own backfield (should be fixable.)
Backgrounds:
Had a torn ACL midway through the 07 season.
Came back from off-season nicely with 125 yards on 15 carries in the season opener.
Also had a 55 yd TD run called back by a touchy holding call on the receiver trying to block.
Johnson's shoulder popped out of its socket against Utah State after only one 37-yard carry, however, making scouts wonder if he was injury-prone.
But he returned with two one-hundred-yd games the following two weeks,
and played in every game en route to 2008 second-team All-Pac 10 honors,
gaining 1,201 rushing yards, scoring 13 touchdowns and averaging an outstanding 7.1 yards per carry.
Johnson's TDs in 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXmhMBnAQU
A few other highlights (don't pay no attention to the tales of the tapes.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhvFsttcqY&feature=related