Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson was one of the best rookie wideouts in 2019. He finished the season with 59 receptions for 680 yards and five touchdowns. Johnson was also named to the Pro Bowl as a punt returner despite only 20 returns on the season.
This is all made more remarkable when Johnson told the media on Wednesday he suffered a groin injury in the second week of the season and played with it for the rest of the year. Johnson proved to be explosive and dynamic as the team’s third-round pick in 2019. He came in on the heels of the Steelers trading away Antonio Brown and certainly gave some flashes of the same types of skills.
Johnson told the press he had surgery on the injury back in February but plans to be back to 100 percent for training camp and the start of the season. Johnson, along with JuJu Smith-Schuster, James Washington and Chase Claypool should form a rather formidable unit with the healthy return of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
