The first time that I remembered seeing David Johnson on a football field was when Northern Iowa traveled to Iowa for the 2014 opener. As usual, Iowa was thought to be one of the best teams in the B1G and Northern Iowa was nothing more than a gritty FCS opponent with little chance to pull off the upset. Down by 11 in the second half, Johnson lined up in the backfield and was matched on a linebacker in pass coverage. Johnson ran right at him, shook him and froze him in concrete, and ran right past him down the seam. The UNI quarterback lofted a pass behind the beaten linebacker into Johnson's arms. The senior star then sprinted past everyone for a 70-yard touchdown that cut into the Hawkeyes' lead.
In that game, Johnson ran for just 34 yards but he had five catches for 203 yards and that one touchdown. I wasn't totally sold on the running back part just yet, but wow, as a receiving running back, he was a future superstar. When he got to Arizona, he showed that he wasn't just a receiving weapon, but a three-down super weapon that was nearly unstoppable. A 2017 injury slowed down a career that was steamrolling anything in its wake.
I've always been a fan of Johnson but didn't really follow much of what he was doing last year. However, the general feeling that I got was that he wasn't nearly the back that he was in 2016 and that he was expendable due to Kenyan Drake. So, I was curious to see what the film would reveal.
I'll put it this way, if the first eight weeks of the 2019 season Johnson shows up, the Texans have an uber-weapon ready for deployment all over the field. An injury slowed him down mid-season and that, combined with a few other running back injuries, opened the door for Drake to step in and take over. In the first half of the season, Johnson had 24 touches, 17, 17, 19, 20 and 18 in six games prior to that mid-season injury. After he returned in Week 13, he didn't have more than six. During that span, he had a 91-yard rushing game one week after he had a 99-yard receiving game.
His dual threat ability was certainly in plain view against the Atlanta Falcons.
Early in the second quarter, he aligned in the backfield next to quarterback Kyler Murray.
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