Ramblin’ Fan
FanSided
John Johnson III has consented to get back to LA Rams optional for 2024
The LA Rams stayed faithful to their promise and have agreed to bring back veteran DB John Johnson III.
By Bret Stuter | Jul 4, 2024
NFC Special case End of the season games – Los Angeles Rams, John Johnson III
NFC Special case End of the season games – Los Angeles Rams, John Johnson III/Gregory Shamus/GettyImages
When the 2023 NFL season finished, the LA Rams and veteran protective back John Johnson III agreed to arrange an augmentation to bring back Johnson for 2024. Yet, that is where the story finished, or so it appears. When the 2024 NFL Free Office market really got started, the Rams added free specialists to the auxiliary. However, they were DBs Darious Williams, Tre’Davious White, and Kamren Twist.
Yet, days passed, then weeks.
After the 2024 NFL Draft, and the way that the group chosen youngster DB Kamren Kinchens, it appeared to be like the group had soaked the optional. Three starters and one reinforcement gone, three starters and one reinforcement reestablished. Completely fair.
Be that as it may, there was incomplete business. Did the Rams neglect to re-sign John Johnson III out of an adjustment of procedure? Or on the other hand was it just a question of legally binding exchanges between the different sides not tumbling to the right price tag? Anything the contrasting positions, the different sides have at last agreed to put marks on another agreement to guarantee Johnson will be back in 2024.
Presently the inquiry becomes, does it check out?
Indeed, it does. Furthermore, here’s the reason:
Most protections succeed at either pass inclusion or run stuffing and hard handling, yet never both. The range of abilities of John Johnson III is to such an extent that he can succeed at both. While he began only eight games for the group in 2023, he had been a full-time starter for quite a bit of his NFL vocation. In that capacity, he ended up being as agreeable in the crate as in inclusion.
The Rams optional requirements a veteran who can flip between the two jobs.
While John Johnson endorsed with the Cleveland Browns in 2021, and thusly didn’t procure a Super Bowl ring with his colleagues, he is a security who plays well for DB Mentor Aubrey Charming and DC Chris Shula. Similar as ILB Ernest Jones, John Johnson III is a hard hitting take-no-guff from rivals kind of safeguard.
I frequently accepted that John Johnson IIi and Scratch Scott would have made a strong pair in an optional. Presently with the expansion of hard-popping wellbeing Kamren Twist, I will get the opportunity to test that theroy. Twist pops like a linebacker with a head of steam. Johnson floats in the optional like an additional cornerback.
I love this late marking. The Rams protection will be that a lot more grounded for it.
