A player who fell to the third round of the 2019 NFL Draft, Coach Drake foresaw something special in Steelers Johnson despite playing at Toledo, going as far as saying, Johnson’s interview was one of the best he’s seen in 40-plus years.
That’s high praise from a well-respected coach. Aside from that, it was Johnson’s playmaking ability that won coach over, calling his change-of-direction skills and ability to make tacklers miss in open-space “intriguing.”
The Steelers who acquired the No. 66 overall selection, as part of the Antonio Brown trade to the Oakland Raiders, in the correspondence needed a wide receiver.