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Jeff Legwold
Michigan’s corner, Will Johnson, who lost the second half of the Wolverines season with a foot injury, has suffered an injury to the hamstrings that will keep him outside the professional day of the school at the end of this month.
The sources told Jordan Reid of ESPN that the injury is not considered serious, but that Johnson will not participate in the professional day on the school campus on March 21. Johnson is now scheduled to have private training on April 14.
Johnson played in six games last season, has not played in a game since October, and ended the year with 14 tacle. He returned his two interceptions for TouchDowns in 2024, and his 128 yards in interception returns still led the Big Ten.
Johnson, who also did not work in The Combine last week, is the 11th player in general in the last draft of Reid and is the number 9 player in the last great ESPN board on the last big board.
Johnson said about his harvesting injury that “it sounds like just a foot of the foot, but there were some ligaments on the foot of the foot, so I could not run, I could not plant, I could not do anything … for a while, really until mid -January.”
Johnson also added in the harvester that, until he went to Indianapolis, he had not suffered any setback in his training. This last injury occurred after the combination ended.
Johnson was appointed the defensive MVP of the Game of the Playoffs of American Football 2023 when the Wolverines closed the 2023 season with the National Championship. Michigan was 8-5 last season.
Johnson is the corner in second place on the ESPN consensus draft board, only behind the Travis Hunter in Colorado, but Johnson said in Indianapolis that he believes that “I am the best corner of the draft.”
