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2022 NFL Draft: Could Jermaine Johnson be the heir to Chandler Jones?

We are just days away from the 2022 NFL Draft and who the Arizona Cardinals could take is really up in the air.

Mostly because when you draft 23rd, you have very little control over anything.

So, we continue our look through players who the Cardinals have met with that could be in play for round one and that continues with Jermaine Johnson.

A one-year starter at Florida State, Johnson lined up as the field defensive end in defensive coordinator Adam Fuller’s four-man front. Considered a key member of Georgia’s front-seven (third on the team in sacks in 2020), he bet on himself by transferring to Tallahassee to be a full-time starter, and he responded with a career year in 2021, including an ACC-best 18.