His coach seems very comfortable with how that is going to play out.
“He wants to do it, that’s 100 percent of it. You get a guy who wants to do it then everybody else feeds off him. No belly-aching, no complaining,” Johnson said. “He embraces what we do and he wants to do it. Our guys respect him; they have confidence that he’s going to make plays for them.
“When you do that, you want to play for a guy. Those guys up front don’t want to get him hit. So they’re going to play a little better. The backs want to block; they know if they give him a crease, they got a chance for a great play. Or if you give him time to throw the ball they’re confident he’s going to make plays. They know he’s a tough guy, so they respect that.”
After all, every family rallies around its most devoted member.