Behind the Uniform with Will Johnson (The Return) - A star, and a brand, are born

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Episode 11 in the Behind the Uniform series features Sam Webb's recent sit-down with Michigan cornerback Will Johnson, who returned to Behind the Uniform for the second time. The freshman All-American reflected upon his first year in Ann Arbor… from the tough love he received from Clinkscale, to gaining a bigger defensive role versus MSU, to facing his biggest challenge of the year versus Marvin Harrison and Ohio State. After recapping his starring role in the Big 10 championship game, attention turns to his NIL experience at Michigan and the launching of his Turnover Buffs branded apparel. Talk turns back to football and the mental The episode closes with a lengthy chat about spring ball and his observations about who’s standing out and where the team is improving. He also shares the timeline for his return from injury.

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0:15.1	And we are back for another edition of Behind the Uniform and fitting that the first guy that we had on behind the
0:22.3	uniform is the last guy we have on before the spring game talking about
0:27.2	will Johnson coming off of a stellar freshman year when he sat in this seat
0:32.0	last year was all about the prospects what he thought he could do what he
0:36.8	thought he might do what he was would happen, but hadn't happened yet.
0:41.3	Now it's in the books, like I said, stellar freshman campaign to reflect upon that and to look ahead to kind of tell me what he's kind of seen from the sideline.
0:49.3	That's William Johnson. Will, how you doing?
0:51.3	I'm doing good. Thank you for having me back. Hey man, thanks for being back. I feel like a lot of the things that you told us when you sat down here last year from
1:00.0	what you were going to do to what you saw from some of the other guys, those things really came true.
1:06.0	But we got to have a chance now to really kind of sit and get into the details, if you will, and kind of talk about
1:13.9	how you were playing so well at an all-American level at the end of the season. But the journey to
1:17.9	that point, what was the most difficult part of your transition, you would say?
1:21.7	I think at the beginning of the season, just having to be patient because I having those older
1:26.6	guys in front of me just
1:27.7	knowing coach clink had my best interest in hand and just yeah being patient knowing that when
1:33.3	my time was right I was going to be able to be out there so that's really all it was first half of
1:37.7	the season I had to be real patient and just keep working every day in practice and with a little
1:43.7	time I was getting in games just take that experience and just every day in practice. And with a little time I was getting in games, just take that experience and just every
1:47.2	week get better.
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