St. Augustine Prep Grad Austin Johnson Signs With Buffalo Bills
The average career length for a National Football League player is 3.3 years. So anyone who has played in the NFL for several years is an accomplishment that deserves recognition.
This is why the news of Austin Johnson signing with his next NFL team is an accomplishment worthy of recognition.
Johnson is a graduate of Saint Augustine Prep High School in South Jersey who played college football at Penn State University.
The defensive lineman from Galloway was selected 43rd overall in the 2016 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans.
After playing 58 games with the Titans over the first four years of his professional football career, Johnson played the next two seasons with the New York Giants.
The Saint Augustine Prep High School Graduate spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers.
Thanks in part to Johnson starting 42 games over the last three seasons, he is joining one of the best teams in the AFC.
Even though the Buffalo Bills had the fourth-best scoring defense in the NFL last year, they were average at stopping offensive rush attacks.
The Bills' defense had nine regular season games in 2023 where they had 127 rushing yards or more against them along with allowing 182 rush yards in their postseason loss against the Kansas City Chiefs.
During the four seasons Austin Johnson and DaQuan Jones played together in Tennessee, the Titans had a top-ranked rushing defense in three of those years.
The reunion of Penn State College Football alumni in Buffalo should pay off for the Bills' defense next season.
Johnson turns 30 years old before the start of the 2024 NFL season as he enters his ninth year in the league.
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