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Hometown Season Career Season Stats Season: 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 There are no statistics for this selected season available for this player. There are no statistics for this selected season available for this player. Career Stats Career Statistics Biography Summary Biography UW This Season: Johnson returned to the Pokes in spring ball. A veteran of the group, he will finished spring at the top of the depth chart with Rocker Ismail, Jr. 2018: Johnson missed the entire 2018 season after suffering a severe knee injury in the 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. He has battled back and been able to participate fully in 2019 Spring Practice. 2017: Johnson appeared in all 13 games for the Pokes at wide receiver. He finished the year second on the Cowboys in receptions with 30 and receiving yards with 531. He led the Pokes with seven touchdowns on the season. He grabbed a career-high six passes for a career-best 130 yards against Gardner-Webb. He grabbed four passes for 104 yards against San Jose State. He recorded two touchdown receptions in the Pokes’ win over Texas State for a career-best. He grabbed three passes for 63 yards and had one rush for 16 yards in the Famous Idaho Bowl against Central Michigan. He led the Pokes in yards per reception at 17.7. He added 40.8 yards per game receiving. 2016: C.J. Johnson came on strong in the second half of the season. He had 21 catches for 304 yards with three touchdowns. He averaged 14.5 yards per catch. He grabbed a career-high five catches for a career-high 85 yards against San Diego State on Nov. 19. He also added a touchdown that proved to be the game-winner in that contest. He scored his first career touchdown against UC Davis on a 37-yard strike from a scrambling Josh Allen. He also added a touchdown against San Diego State in the MW Championship game. 2015: Redshirted. High School: Johnson was ranked as the No. 3 overall recruit in the state of Nebraska by Rivals.com in 2014. He was ranked as the No. 4 overall recruit in Nebraska by both ESPN.com and 247Sports.com. All three recruiting sites ranked him as a three-star recruit. Johnson was selected to the All-Nebraska First Team for all classifications by the Omaha World-Herald both his junior and senior seasons. He was also elected to the Lincoln Journal-Star Super State First Team for all classifications. Johnson was named the Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year for 2014. His father, Clester Johnson, was the Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year in 1991 at Bellevue West High and went on to letter for the Nebraska Cornhuskers as a wingback from 1993-95. According to the Gatorade archives, the two became the first father-son football recipients in the national history of the Gatorade State Player of the Year awards. C.J. Johnson was also named to the All-Class Super State team and the Class A All-State team by NebraskaHSFootball.com. NEPrepZone.com named him to the First Team Class A team. Class A is the largest classification in Nebraska. Johnson broke numerous Nebraska high school state receiving records during his career. His 3,548 career receiving yards set a new state of Nebraska record for all classifications. His 195 career receptions set a Nebraska Class A record, as did his 44 career receiving TDs. He ended his high school career with 4,827 all-purpose yards. His senior season, he caught 63 passes for 1,214 yards, had 20 receiving touchdowns and led all Class A players in receptions, receiving yards and receiving TDs. He played for head coach Michael Huffman. Johnson was also an outstanding basketball player for Bellevue West High. He was recruited by Harvard, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio Personal: He has not yet decided on a college major at UW.
