RENTON -- Old/new Seahawks safety Jeron Johnson flew out to the East Coast several times this year for tryouts after being released by the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 3. But after Seattle safety Earl Thomas was lost for the year on Sunday with a fractured tibia, the 28-year-old Johnson had a significantly shorter journey ahead of him.
Johnson, who lives close to the Seahawks training facility at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, watched Thomas suffer the injury in the second quarter of Sunday's 40-7 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
"I knew if it was bad I would get a call," Johnson told reporters from the locker room at the VMAC on Wednesday after re-signing with the Seahawks, the team he originally joined as an undrafted rookie in 2011.