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Jadar Johnson plans return to football

Related Topics: July 30

CLEMSON -- Former Orangeburg-Wilkinson and Clemson Tiger defensive back Jadar Johnson is making a return to the game of football.

It was on July 30 that Johnson announced he was officially retiring from football and would be enrolling at Clemson to get his master's degree in counseling in the hopes of helping athletes struggling with finding their identity off the football field.

“Right now, my plan is to go back to school (at Clemson) and try to get my master’s degree and then go looking for jobs from there," Johnson said then. "I want to do counseling, more specifically counseling with athletes, guys who go through what I’ve gone through.