21 Players in 21 Days: #16 Tyree Johnson & Micheal Clemons

Tyree Johnson

Position: Defensive Line
Classification: Senior
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Listed Height: 6-4
Listed Weight: 240

Micheal Clemons

Position: Defensive Line
Classification: Graduate Student
Hometown: Garland, TX
Listed Height: 6-5
Listed Weight: 270

Key notes from Billy’s analysis of Johnson & Clemons

• I appreciate the effort to shoehorn more players into this list. That's straight out of my playbook.
   
• These are two of the more underrated players on this team and in the SEC. Not enough people talk about these guys, but inside the building, Clemons' name has come up a lot this offseason. He had 4.5 sacks or so before he got hurt in the Arkansas game. He was playing pretty good ball last year before the injury and just couldn't come back from it.
   
• Both Clemons and Johnson could've gone to the NFL. Instead, Clemons decided to come back and is a super senior. He has always been a first-of-the-bus guy, but now he looks like an NFL starter. His play is starting to match his physical stature. He's not going to be a twitchy edge who gets double-digit sacks. He is now tougher to block and is better against the block.
   
• Mike Elko will figure out how to generate pressure. Clemons will be part of that, but it's not his strength. He can set and sustain the edge.
   
• With Tyree Johnson, he is the twitchiest-get-around-the-tackle veteran that can pressure the quarterback and collect some sacks.
   
• Tyree has 9.5 career sacks and maybe four in A&M's last two bowl games. If he is the guy on the edge this year and they don't have a rotation — which there are some young defensive linemen who are ready to play like Donnell Harris and Fadil Diggs as well as Shemar Turner, Tunmise Adeleye and Jahzion Harris — that 9.5 number could get turned in 15 fairly easily.

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