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For Ferris State OT Devon Johnson, high school snub remains NFL motivation

Dave Birkett, Carlos Monarrez debate takeaways from Bob Quinn's predraft Q&A, guess which player Lions will draft at No. 8. Filmed April 18, 2019. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press

Paul Murphy watched from the crowd in amazement as Ferris State coach Tony Annese spoke at a football clinic in Chicago two years ago.

Annese was talking about the Bulldogs’ zone-read offense, and over and over he kept showing film of his big offensive tackle, Devon Johnson, kicking out and pulling on running plays.

Murphy coached Johnson a few years earlier, at Waubonsie Valley High in Aurora, Ill.