Pitt's Future Hall Of Famer Larry Fitzgerald welcomes Johnson to Arizona Cardinals!
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David Johnson is always smiling. The Cardinals running back was practically giddy on Saturday, though, when he announced the team’s fourth-round draft pick via a live television remote from Grand Canyon National Park. Maybe that’s because Johnson is counting on Pittsburgh guard Dorian Johnson, the 115th overall selection, to open holes the size of the Grand Canyon once the two are on the football field together.
And that could happen sooner than you think. In Dorian Johnson, a mammoth blocker at 6-feet-5-inches and 300 pounds, the Cardinals believe they grabbed the best interior offensive lineman in the draft. Some scouts and draft services projected him as a low first-round to high second-round pick. Johnson likely wouldn’t have fallen to the Cardinals if it weren’t for a recent medical re-check, which revealed a health condition related to his liver. Johnson’s liver is producing enzymes at a rate five times higher than normal, but he said he’s known about it for years and has been taking medication to keep it under control. “It hasn’t affected me or my playing whatsoever,” he said. “But I guess a lot of teams saw it as a red flag and thought it would prohibit the way I would play. ... I guess that just raised a lot of concern, but I’m completed healthy. No issues with it.
“I’m absolutely not worried about it at all.”
LINK:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...r-dorian-johnson-arizona-cardinals/307979001/
Excerpt:
David Johnson is always smiling. The Cardinals running back was practically giddy on Saturday, though, when he announced the team’s fourth-round draft pick via a live television remote from Grand Canyon National Park. Maybe that’s because Johnson is counting on Pittsburgh guard Dorian Johnson, the 115th overall selection, to open holes the size of the Grand Canyon once the two are on the football field together.
And that could happen sooner than you think. In Dorian Johnson, a mammoth blocker at 6-feet-5-inches and 300 pounds, the Cardinals believe they grabbed the best interior offensive lineman in the draft. Some scouts and draft services projected him as a low first-round to high second-round pick. Johnson likely wouldn’t have fallen to the Cardinals if it weren’t for a recent medical re-check, which revealed a health condition related to his liver. Johnson’s liver is producing enzymes at a rate five times higher than normal, but he said he’s known about it for years and has been taking medication to keep it under control. “It hasn’t affected me or my playing whatsoever,” he said. “But I guess a lot of teams saw it as a red flag and thought it would prohibit the way I would play. ... I guess that just raised a lot of concern, but I’m completed healthy. No issues with it.
“I’m absolutely not worried about it at all.”
LINK:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor...r-dorian-johnson-arizona-cardinals/307979001/
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