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Ebron learning from Johnson: 'He's like my big brother'

As mentors go, Calvin Johnson is probably the best one second-year tight end Eric Ebron could have chosen in the Lions locker room.

Ebron, who’s expected to be a big part of the Lions’ offense in his second season, said that over the last year Johnson has become a “big brother” to him.

Eric Ebron
Eric Ebron

“Anyone who is young, like myself, I follow him step by step,” Ebron told detroitlions.com. “Everything that he does.”

Johnson has been very productive the last eight seasons and a little bit of that rubbing off on Ebron will do the Lions' offense a lot of good in 2015.