Northwestern Wildcats | |
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Position | Wide receiver |
Class | Senior |
Major | Organizational Leadership |
Personal information | |
Born: | Madisonville, Kentucky | April 12, 1999
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
Career history | |
College |
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Bowl games | |
High school | Brentwood Academy |
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Camron "Cam" Blais Johnson (born April 12, 1999) is an American football wide receiver from Madisonville, Kentucky who currently plays for the Northwestern Wildcats in the Big Ten Conference. He previously played for the Vanderbilt Commodores in the Southeastern Conference and the Arizona State Sun Devils in the Pac-12 Conference.[1]
At the age of 12, Johnson and AAU basketball teammates Gavin Schoenwald and Darius Garland made the decision to play high school basketball together and chose to enroll in 7th grade at Brentwood Academy in Tennessee.[2] Schoenwald would become a teammate of Johnson's at Vanderbilt,[3] while Garland played hoops at Vanderbilt before becoming the 5th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft for the Cleveland Cavaliers.[4]
At Brentwood, Johnson was a four-time all-state, four-time all-region and three-time state champion in football. He lettered in football, basketball and track, and won a combined 13 state titles. As a football recruit, he was a consensus four-star prospect and ESPN Top 300 prospect.[5]
Johnson signed a letter of intent to play at Vanderbilt on December 20, 2017, and officially enrolled in June 2018.[6]
In 2018, Johnson saw action in 4 games as a true freshman before suffering a season-ending lower leg injury while blocking in a game against South Carolina.[7]
Johnson started 9 games in 2019 as a redshirt freshman, and led Commodore receivers in touchdowns.[8]
Johnson was named pre-season All-SEC third team in 2021 by Pro Football Focus.[9]
On January 18, 2023, Johnson announced on Twitter that he had signed with Northwestern University football via the transfer portal.[10]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | ||
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6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
202 lb (92 kg) |
31+1⁄8 in (0.79 m) |
9+3⁄8 in (0.24 m) |
4.62 s | 1.59 s | 2.63 s | 4.22 s | 7.00 s | 37.0 in (0.94 m) |
10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) | ||
All values from Pro Day[11] |