The Detroit Lions had just finished going over their Friday install for their Week 1 game against the San Francisco 49ers, putting in short-yardage and red-zone plays, when Amon-Ra St. Brown turned to one of his teammates and asked of the assistant who just made the presentation: Who’s Ben Johnson?
“His attention to detail when he was installing these plays in the red zone,” St. Brown recalled in an interview with the Free Press last month. “He presents really well. He’s super confident up there. He knows what he’s talking about. You can just hear it in his voice.