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Lifelong Frog
ESPN: Tejay Johnson takes less traveled path
By Andrea Adelson
There are countless players every season who put their studies on hold for a shot at NFL stardom. They leave the classroom behind so they can spend January, February, March and April getting bigger, stronger, faster, some of them vowing to return to class the first chance they get.
Then there is Tejay Johnson.
The TCU safety was an All-American last season, a Thorpe award finalist and the heart of the best defense in college football as a senior. But rather than pursue an NFL career, he opted to retire. Johnson did not want to leave school, not when he still had so much to do to get his degree in habilitation of the deaf and hard of hearing. ...
By Andrea Adelson
There are countless players every season who put their studies on hold for a shot at NFL stardom. They leave the classroom behind so they can spend January, February, March and April getting bigger, stronger, faster, some of them vowing to return to class the first chance they get.
Then there is Tejay Johnson.
The TCU safety was an All-American last season, a Thorpe award finalist and the heart of the best defense in college football as a senior. But rather than pursue an NFL career, he opted to retire. Johnson did not want to leave school, not when he still had so much to do to get his degree in habilitation of the deaf and hard of hearing. ...
