Hall of Famer willing to mentor young Lions WR

Corridor of Fame broad receiver Calvin Johnson and the Detroit Lions are working to fix their relationship, and a number of progress appears to have been made on that entrance.

A lot progress, actually, that Johnson was a visitor at Lions minicamp this week and is keen to mentor second-year receiver Jameson Williams any manner that he can. 

Johnson talked about his willingness to work with Williams throughout an look on 97.1 The Ticket this previous week.

Through NFL.com:

“I related with Jamo yesterday actually for the primary time, and I sit up for simply being round and being a shoulder for him to lean on,” Johnson mentioned. “Extraordinarily gifted child. We noticed him when he touched the sphere final 12 months for the primary time. I sit up for simply serving to him construct the extent of consistency and being the professional he needs to be, man. Something I can to do assist him, I am going to do this and I will be there.”

Williams’ profession has gotten off to a particularly rocky begin.

After being chosen with the No. 12 general decide within the 2022 draft, Williams was capable of seem in simply six video games because of harm, catching one cross for 40 yards.

The Lions are nonetheless anticipating him to take a giant leap ahead in his second season however they’ll have to attend till Week 7 for that to start out occurring. Williams should miss the primary six video games of the season because of a suspension for violating the league’s playing coverage. Williams wager on non-NFL video games however did so from the Lions workforce facility. That resulted in a six-game suspension. The Lions had a number of gamers get caught for comparable infractions.

The opposite massive facet of that is the truth that Johnson is once more a big a part of the Lions franchise.

Johnson is likely one of the greatest gamers in workforce historical past and top-of-the-line broad receivers in NFL historical past. He shockingly retired from the NFL whereas nonetheless in his prime and didn’t go away on good phrases with the franchise over reimbursement of his signing bonus. The 2 sides have proven a willingness to fix the connection in latest months and that course of appears to be going nicely. 

That may solely be excellent news for the Lions. Not solely to have a franchise nice be across the workforce, but in addition along with his willingness to assist the subsequent technology of Lions cross catchers attain their potential.