Tennessee’s Chris Johnson is currently on pace for a 2,000 yard season. He’s averaging six yards per carry and one “OHMYGOD what just happened”-play per game. Why isn’t he one of the most famous football players in the NFL?
Have You Heard Of Chris Johnson?
If the Titans running back, were named, say, Jamario Moon, maybe he’d be more famous. Even if he were named Chris John-ston, there’d be more of that mystique. It sounds stupid, I know, but really: “Chris Johnson?” Is that a white linebacker for Penn State? Can we have a mulligan on the Chris Johnson naming process? Or maybe he could just switch names with Lendale White for the next ten years. That’d work too.
Think about that. If you’re a team playing the Titans--like the 13-0 Colts, for instance, who play Tennessee this weekend--literally the only thing that scares you about the Tennessee offense is Chris Johnson. In fact, with their defensive struggles over the first six weeks, the only thing that scared you on their whole team was... Chris Johnson. And with teams scheming all week to stop him and only him, nearly every Sunday, you look up and see a new ridiculous set of runs on YouTube.
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