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Chris Johnson is really blowing up my spot right now. I was ready to capitalize on two consecutive seasons of plummeting draft stock and snap him up for cheap in my fantasy auction draft. Now CJ2K may just reclaim the public’s goodwill with his 58-yard touchdown against the Washington Redskins.
The Tennessee Titans opened preseason play with the major concern being the development of Jake Locker, but there were also worries among experts — and probably still are — that Johnson would never recover the form that saw him star as a rookie before hitting 2,000 rushing yards in 2009.
“It’s been a humbling experience,” Johnson said from Titans training camp, via NFL Network. “But at the end of the day, what a lot of people don’t understand is, there are so many things that go into having a 2,000-yard season, even just having a lot of rushing yards.
“The year that I did, we had a great defense getting us the ball back, a great offensive line and a great offensive coordinator. There’s just so much that goes into it; everything got to be hitting on the right angles.”
Johnson humiliated Redskins safety Bacarri Rambo for the angle he took in the first quarter Thursday night, before bursting for paydirt. Johnson had also been humiliating former Titans offensive coordinator Chris Palmer through the media — and via versa — until the latter parted ways with the team. This should help Johnson mightily because Palmer’s presence crippled the offense. Throw in free agent guard Andy Levitre and mauling top pick Chance Warmack, and this offensive line is suddenly pushing people around in the run game.
All good things for Johnson, who the Titans should bench, before his ADP gets way too high.
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