Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M tapped into the transfer portal for another addition today as Rice graduate fullback Jerry Johnson III announced he his transferring to Texas A&M.
The 6-foot-1, 240-pound fullback began his career as a walk-on center before moving to fullback in the fall of his true freshman season in 2019. He quickly made his presence felt at fullback and on special teams. According to PFF, he was graded Rice’s top special teams performer in 2021. Over the course of his career, he played in 26 games and made a name for himself for his blocking and tenacity on the field.
Johnson is a familiar face around the Aggie program. He joins his father Jerry Johnson II, who is an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Texas A&M, and his younger brother Chantz Johnson, who signed with Texas A&M out of College Station High School in the 2023 class.
He also joins former Rice teammates and preferred walk-on transfers Aidan Siano and Derek Ferraro in the Texas A&M program, and he is A&M’s third scholarship addition via the portal, joining cornerbacks Sam McCall (Florida State) and Tony Grimes (North Carolina).
Meximan said:
Interesting... almost no one uses fullbacks anymore so I'd be curious to see if Petrino will actually use a traditional fullback or use him more like a power tailback.
AWP 97 said:
So we continue to use our scholarships on coach's low ranked kids? Two for Johnson and we tried one for Price. Can we just pay our coaches more money and use our scholarships on good players? Of course, I guess if you have 15 scholarships available, you can afford to just give them to your employee's sons.
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What the f is this staff doing?
Chuck Cunningham said:4 said:
What the f is this staff doing?
Bottom of the roster ST guy.
Good teammate. Good character.
Why wouldn't they take him?
I am always wrong said:Chuck Cunningham said:4 said:
What the f is this staff doing?
Bottom of the roster ST guy.
Good teammate. Good character.
Why wouldn't they take him?
Because we're trying to win a national championship, not a good character award.
Chuck Cunningham said:I am always wrong said:Chuck Cunningham said:4 said:
What the f is this staff doing?
Bottom of the roster ST guy.
Good teammate. Good character.
Why wouldn't they take him?
Because we're trying to win a national championship, not a good character award.
Can't win a national championship with 12 empty scholarships.
Do you expect those to fill with starters?
Chuck Cunningham said:
This thread just shows that many of you have the critical thinking skills of toads.
I am always wrong said:
If you actually think this program can compete for a championship, I don't know what to tell you. We can certainly improve from 5-7, but you don't go from losing to App State to winning a championship.
Chuck Cunningham said:
You literally just proved my point.
We're not competing for a championship next year so why does it matter if we bring in a guy for 1 year for depth?
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Can't win a national championship with 12 empty scholarships.
Do you expect those to fill with starters?
Feel the same. He, along with a thousand others, was not the number 1 recruit in the country coming out of high school, only one guy was. But he is one of us now, so I welcome him and hope he has a great season. Maybe he causes a key fumble on special teams, maybe he has a great block to spring one of our back on a long TD run. Just have to see.Sterling82 said:
I'm not going to knock a guy, walk on or otherwise, that's going to be on this team. There are a lot of them out there that are good football players. Sam Matthews, for example is a good football player. He probably will get few opportunities in games but he can play. If Johnson can catch and block, we can use him. Probably the best H-back/FB we've had in the past 10 years was a walk on and ended up playing for the Texans.