Drake Johnson done with football/Grant Newsome targeting 2018 season

What a bummer for Drake Johnson. Hope all the best for him and his future outside of football.

love the drake

He always gave his all. A shame that a couple of freak incidents cut his opportunity short.

As for Grant...please take the time to heal.

Thank you for everything, Drake. 

I understand it.  He's had so many injury issues. 

I feel like I will remember Drake the way I remember Brandon Minor, as in I will always wonder what could have been if only he had stayed healthy.

So we now have three open schoalrships? Grad transfer OT, Grad transfer DT, Grad Transfer safety

Is Drake retiring, transferring, or other?  Just curious if anyone knows his intentions.

Best of luck to Drake, a man who stood up to a forklift and lived to tell about it. I always really liked his game.

His admiration for Wilton's deep passes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEZLENYWyMU

Start at 12:02.

He'll always be one of my 'what if's'.  As in what if he wouldn't have gotten hurt in the OSU game down in Columbus a few years ago?  

Man screw that forklift driver. Drake was finally healthy at the Citrus Bowl and he looked great both running the ball and catching out of the backfield. Not out of the realm of possibility he could have been our best back this past year

Was hopeful Newsome would come back this year and start. Young guys will have to step up.

Sad. I wanted to see one more run from Drake. 

So much potential, but too many injuries. Thanks for all the effort through the years, Drake.

I'll always remember Drake for his epic performance in the 2014 OSU game. Such a shame he got injured.

He's been doing pretty well on the Track team this year. 

Rb out of Georgia just commited a little bit go ! We be fine

Both of these aren't surprises, but they hit hard. All of us wanted Drake to have that season he seemed so capable of having. And the worst moment of '16 was Newsome's injury, for many reasons. I hope he comes back strong.

He'll get his degree from Michigan.  Wish him the best in the future.  Really hoping Grant can come back to 100% if not nearly there.

GO BLUE!

Saying lots of prayers for Grant Newsome's continued healing and recovery.

I thought there was a zero % chance Drake would be on the team the fall. The injuries and unknown, this decision is the best for all parties.

and I think it would make him happy to know that many fans are going to remember him as a good football player, but perhaps he'll be remembered mostly for "that extra" LSA mentioned and translated into an indisputable love for the game. More than any other player on our roster, it was easy to recognize no one loved being a wolverine more than this young man. He was a great teammate as well. Enthusiasm is contagious and to be perectly honest, he's the first fb player, at any level I've seen click his heels together in mid-air to celebrate a score.  If it brought smiles to our faces, you have to believe his fellow wolverines were lifted by it as well. 

I am so happy to hear he's engaged in track. This will keep him busy, hopefully help satisfy his healthy appetite for competition and being a member of the track team will allow him to work as hard as he wants, something else he truly loves. 

I was somewhere in S. America during The Game in 2014 - first one i've missed since Vietnam - but am very happy to read he gave an outstanding effort and had some major success against our chief rival. The young man from AA was able to realize what a lot of youngsters in MI grow up  dreaming of. Although its somewhat sad to see his fb career come to an end, it seems fitting that the young man who loved it all so much felt that what, at times, seemed like continuous rehab, was more than worth it. You know certain players, Devin Gardner, Dhani Jones, Jim Harbaugh, et. al., no matter their level of success, are always striving to accomplish more. I think Drake will earn the right to be included in such a list. 

Is there a chance that Drake will receive some sort of a settlement from the University if he cannot play football anymore? 

 

Harbaugh is generally tight-lipped about injuries, but he has been especially tight-lipped about the Johnson situation, enough so that I've wondered if there is litigation pending.   And it would seem that whatever Johnson gets would be significantly more if he was prevented from playing football again.

 

I'm not insinuating that he is CHOOSING to not play football because of this.  But if the doctors were giving him coin-flip advice, like "well you COULD do play but there are risks involved", if opting-out worked in his favor for a pending lawsuit then I honestly wouldn't blame him one bit.

 

Again, I have NO information, but I just have a hard time believing he got run over by a (negligent?) forklift and there isn't a lawyer involved somewhere.