Jets’ Jermaine Johnson taking on leadership role after breakout season
NY Post
From the moment he was selected by the Jets in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft, Jermaine Johnson has burned to do for the Jets what he did in his final year of college at Florida State.
Lead.
It’s taken a little bit of time, but the Jets edge rusher appears to have arrived at that place: As a team leader.
If you listen to what Mike Norvell, Johnson’s coach at Florida State, told The Post the day after he was drafted, it all makes more sense now.
“When he came here, we talked and I told him I didn’t want this to be just a place for him to improve his draft status, that it was an opportunity to make an impact,’’ Norvell said. “He embraced that. He wanted to make a difference.’’
Those words from Norvell have resonated as Johnson has begun to build his NFL career and what the Jets hope is a legacy as a game-wrecking force on their formidable front seven.
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