I loved football and I could play it, but I was a linebacker all through Boy's Club. I didn't play offense until I got to high school. That's when football started coming around. That's when I realized there might be a future there. Although Spurrier isn't exactly thrilled about Johnson spending his summers playing professional baseball in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' minor-league system, Johnson's baseball experience has put football in a different perspective.
Baseball is a cutthroat business.
You're on your own trying to survive. There are a lot of worrisome people in the minor leagues. Now I can come back here and be a kid again. Baseball is definitely going to help me. It's the most mental game there is.