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#77, Duke Johnson, RB, Miami

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As riveting as this conversation is, it has a place in EAYOR, not in the "Duke" "Johnson" thread.
 

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Browns see rookie Duke Johnson playing like Thurman Thomas
Posted by Michael David Smith on June 13, 2015, 3:12 PM EDT
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Duke Johnson has only been in the NFL long enough to go through a few weeks of offseason work, and he’s already being compared to a Hall of Famer.

Johnson, the running back chosen by the Browns in the third round of the NFL draft, has looked so good at Organized Team Activities that Browns running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery says he looks like Bills Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas.

“The best way I can describe Duke is what Thurman Thomas was for Buffalo,” Montgomery said, via Ohio.com. “It’s going to be all over the field. It’s a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ He gives you another dimension. He creates one-on-one problems. We hope he can be a little bit like the kid, [Giovani] Bernard, in Cincinnati. If he can do that for us, that gives us a different perspective on how we approach the field and gives us a chance to move people around and taking advantage of a mismatch.”

That’s high praise for Johnson, who left the University of Miami after becoming the Hurricanes’ all-time leading rusher during his junior season. Johnson is part of a three-way running back competition with Isaiah Crowell and Terrance West, but from Montgomery’s comments it sounds like Johnson is in the lead. The Browns plan to give playing time to all three running backs, but Johnson seems like the one who will get the ball the most in Cleveland this year.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...kie-duke-johnson-playing-like-thurman-thomas/

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We are really discussing Brown's mini-camp and stuff? Aren't these guys playing in shorts right now? It's amazing to me to hear discussions on talk radio and see them in here about the Browns when all they are doing is running around in shorts. Get me to the pre-season in full pads and full go before I start getting interested. For now, it's all BS and frankly ridiculous. My opinion of course. I realize there are radical Brown's fans who have no other interests other than what was the last think Manziel said or did on the practice field in shorts, or how great this Duke fellow might be as we watch him running around in shorts, so I can understand this about those fans, but I thought I'd give the perspective of a Brown's fan who simply doesn't get it all at this time of year when all grown men are doing is running around in shorts and the coaching staff is putting up great spin news with no real information on how good or bad this year's Brown's team will be.

I'll check back in come August or so. :wink6:
 
We are really discussing Brown's mini-camp and stuff? Aren't these guys playing in shorts right now? It's amazing to me to hear discussions on talk radio and see them in here about the Browns when all they are doing is running around in shorts. Get me to the pre-season in full pads and full go before I start getting interested. For now, it's all BS and frankly ridiculous. My opinion of course. I realize there are radical Brown's fans who have no other interests other than what was the last think Manziel said or did on the practice field in shorts, or how great this Duke fellow might be as we watch him running around in shorts, so I can understand this about those fans, but I thought I'd give the perspective of a Brown's fan who simply doesn't get it all at this time of year when all grown men are doing is running around in shorts and the coaching staff is putting up great spin news with no real information on how good or bad this year's Brown's team will be.

I'll check back in come August or so. :wink6:

You really have a problem with guys wearing shorts, don't you?
 
You really have a problem with guys wearing shorts, don't you?
No. My problem stems from other's problem who watch guys wearing shorts and somehow think they are gaining knowledge about those guys with shorts. :hihi:
 
Me?

I'm a fan of rocking shorts with an untucked slim fit button down and the sleeves rolled up. White belt. Topsiders.
 
Me?

I'm a fan of rocking shorts with an untucked slim fit button down and the sleeves rolled up. White belt. Topsiders.

Do you also like throwing a frisbee while drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon?
 
Jim Leyland would have had them out there in pads.
 
Feel bad for this dude. He watched his dad deal with a debilitating disease, almost quits football, then gets concussed trying to catch a horribly thrown pass in his first game. Feel better soon Duke.
 
Feel bad for this dude. He watched his dad deal with a debilitating disease, almost quits football, then gets concussed trying to catch a horribly thrown pass in his first game. Feel better soon Duke.

He better get used to it.
 

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