Cardinals’ running back David Johnson doesn’t have a nickname, although people have tried to come up with something clever and fitting. Leave it to that proverbial NFL wordsmith, Jon Gruden, to pull the perfect name right out of the air.
“Johnson is what you’re looking for,” the Raiders’ head coach said Wednesday during a conference call when asked what he likes about the fourth-year star. “I mean, he’s a game-breaking back, he can take a short pass the distance, he can bang in there for critical yards and short yardage, he can end the game, breaking tackles.
“He’s a joker.