The Redondo Union High School football field was mostly cleared out, the All-American receiver now standing idly near the boundary and the former NFL quarterback having left. A handful of older Los Angeles County residents ambled around the track. Passing them in composed strides through the beach town fog was Hunter Johnson, the country's best high school quarterback.
Moments earlier, Johnson was in the midst of throwing patterns with USC's JuJu Smith-Schuster and Trent Dilfer. Johnson, the No. 1 prep quarterback and Clemson signee, would miss part of that weekend's Elite 11, so those three met a day early on Thursday because 24 hours later Johnson would be on a red eye out of LAX to Indianapolis.