The Larry Johnson who once was the subject of a fan petition imploring the Chiefs to deactivate him so he couldn’t break the team’s career rushing record might not recognize the Larry Johnson who attended training camp on Sunday at Missouri Western.
Signing football and helmets and posing for photographs with children and adults as his young daughter, Jaylen, sat quietly nearby, Johnson looked — and felt — the part of a former star player returning to his old team.
But it’s taken Johnson several years to reach this point — including his involvement in an artistic-based development program for disadvantaged youth — after a career that was productive but also often at odds with the team and city.