Keyshawn Johnson
Keyshawn Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 22nd, 1972 and is the Football Player. At the age of 52, Keyshawn Johnson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Joseph Keyshawn Johnson (born July 22, 1972) is a former American football player who played for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Southern California and received All-American recognition.
He was the first pick in the 1996 NFL Draft, and he appeared for the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Carolina Panthers. Following the 2006 season, he retired from football and spent seven years as a television broadcaster for ESPN.
Keyshawn Johnson was a contestant on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars, in which he was the first contestant to be disqualified.
Early years
Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended Palisades High School for his sophomore and junior years, as well as Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, where he played high school football for the Dorsey Dons during his senior year. Though Johnson's early life was marred by gang violence and legal issues, he was nonetheless a top prospect at football. After being arrested for smoking marijuana, cocaine, and a concealed handgun, he spent nine months in a California youth detention facility. Because of his low SAT ratings, he was inspired to start his college football career in community college.
Personal life
He has four children: Keyshawn Jr., Maia, London, and Vance. Keyshawn Johnson Jr. is also a wide receiver who has committed to play for the University of Nebraska. Michael Thomas, the incoming New Orleans Saints quarterback, is his nephew.
On March 15, 2021, Johnson revealed on Twitter that his oldest daughter Maia had died.
College career
Johnson played just 8 games in his first year at West Los Angeles College. He finally stopped turning up for practice. "I was the good kid for years, but the best of me came from curiosity," he later wrote. "I started hanging out with the wrong crowd and got myself into trouble." After missing the following year to get his affairs in order, Johnson returned to football in 1992 and did well enough to earn himself a transfer to University of Southern California, where he competed for coach John Robinson's USC Trojans football team in 1994 and 1995. He had 66 catches for 1,362 yards and 9 touchdowns in 1994. He had 102 catches for 1,434 yards and 7 touchdowns in 1995.
He was twice named as a consensus first-team All-America pick as a Trojan. Johnson was instrumental in the 1994 Cotton Bowl Classic, leading the Trojans to victory, and he was voted the game's Most Valuable Player. In the Trojans' 41-32 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats, the Trojans then played in the 1996 Rose Bowl, during which Johnson passed for a record 216 yards and one touchdown. He was named Player of the Game by the Game's Grand Prix. On December 31, 2008, he was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
As a freshman, Johnson appeared on the TV show Coach as a player eligible for draft in the forthcoming season. He openly denied being accepted into Hayden Fox's fictional "Orlando Breakers" team, stating that he would go to Canada to play first. Johnson obtained a B.A. degree from the University of California. In 1997, the department of social sciences and history began to consider it.
Professional career
The New York Jets selected Johnson with the top overall pick in the 1996 NFL Draft. Irving Fryar, the third wide receiver selected with the number one overall pick since the New England Patriots selected him in 1984. He spent three seasons (1997–1999) in New York, and the Jets went from 1–15 in 1996 to 9–7 in 1998, the franchise's first-ever AFC East Division championship.
In an AFC divisional playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in 34–24, one of his best performances in a 34–24 victory in an AFC divisional playoff game since the 1998 season. Johnson intercepted a pass on defense, caught nine passes for 121 yards and a touchdown, rushed for 28 yards and a touchdown, recovered a fumble, and intercepted a pass on defense. The Jets fell just one game short of the Super Bowl after losing the AFC Championship Game to the Denver Broncos 23–10. Just Give Me the Damn Ball, Johnson wrote an autobiography with ESPN's Shelley Smith. The book chronicled his rookie year in London.
In the 2000 NFL Draft, Johnson was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two first round draft picks (13th – John Abraham – and 27th – total). Soon after Johnson arrived in Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers announced that he had signed him to an 8-year, $56 million contract extension, making him the NFL's highest-paid wide receiver.
At the time, he was with a team that had lost one game before the Super Bowl the previous season. With the help of then-head coach Jon Gruden, who succeeded Tony Dungy, Johnson won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers in 2002. Johnson had 76 catches for 1,088 yards and five touchdowns in the playoffs; against the Eagles, he had eight catches for 125 yards and a touchdown, and then had six grabs for 69 yards in the Super Bowl. However, his tumultuous friendship with Gruden (illustrated by a video clip of him screaming at Gruden on the sidelines) resulted in his deactivation for the final 7 games of the 2003 season. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the following offseason, where he was reunited with Bill Parcells, his mentor when he was with the New York Jets.
Joey Galloway, the Dallas Cowboys' newest recruit, was traded to the Dallas Cowboys on March 19, 2004, who had already traded two first round picks to acquire. Johnson, reunited with his former coach Bill Parcells in 2004, was able to lead the Cowboys in receiving yards and tying for the lead in touchdown catches while playing a leadership role in the locker room and on the track. The Cowboys cut Johnson on March 16, 2006 to make room for new acquisition Terrell Owens.
Johnson signed a four-year, $14 million contract with the Carolina Panthers on March 23, 2006. He had been promised a $5 million signing bonus, so he was assured a $5 million signing bonus. He was supposed to start opposite Steve Smith as the number two receiver.
Johnson was the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown against the Buccaneers on Monday Night Football (Jets, Buccaneers, Cowboys, and Panthers) during the Carolina Panthers' Monday Night Football game against the Buccaneers on November 13, 2006. Johnson was released from the Panthers on May 1, 2007, after just one season with the team. In Carolina, he had 70 receptions for 815 yards and four touchdowns.
Johnson resigned from football on May 23, 2007, including the Tennessee Titans, after some teams allegedly turned down offers from several franchises, including the Tennessee Titans. Jeff Fisher, the Titans' head coach who spent time with Johnson at USC, said Johnson's numbers and production spoke for themselves: "He still played at a high-level last year." Fisher said, "He takes very good care of himself." "He hasn't had any injuries per season." Anytime you have the opportunity to bring an experienced veteran to your roster, it's a good thing." Johnson revealed on the same day that he will be working as an analyst for ESPN.
Bill Parcells beat Johnson out of office on February 5, 2008, according to CBS4 Miami. According to reports, Parcells told him if he was going to come out of retirement, he would have a spot on the Miami Dolphins roster.
Since being a good player at the start of his career, he has been invited to the Pro Bowl three times – 1998 and 1999 with the N.Y. With Tampa Bay, the Jets and 2001. Johnson finished his career with 814 receptions, tying him for 17th all-time with Henry Ellard for career NFL receptions. His 10,571 yards receiving yards are the highest number in NFL history. He tied Herman Moore for the second fewest games needed in NFL history to reach that number, and he was one of only three players in league history (Moore and Marvin Harrison) to reach 600 receptions in fewer than 120 games. In his first 100 games, he received 512 points, ranking him fourth most receptions in a player's first 100 games. The other three are Marvin Harrison (591), Sterling Sharpe (524), and Lionel Taylor (516).
He has averaged 74.8 catches-per-season in his first nine seasons, and has earned a pass in every one of his 135 games played during this period. This was the second longest streak among active receivers (Harrison, 139) and the third longest streak to begin a career among all players (Marshall Faulk, 158 and Harrison, 1391) at the time. In ten of his eleven NFL seasons, Johnson had 60 or more catches. He became the first Buccaneers player to record 1,000-yard receiving seasons in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Johnson played in only three of a possible 145 games, including playoffs, due to injury.