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Now healthy, Johnson looks for breakout season in 2020

Diontae Johnson had an exciting rookie season. The third-round draft pick led all rookies in receptions in 2019. He earned All-Pro status as a punt returner.

And he did it all while nursing his way through a painful sports hernia that required surgery in February.

Johnson has been working hard rehabbing the injury in Florida while on coronavirus lockdown and is close to being cleared for a full return.

"That happened probably the second game of the season. I was running and it just felt like my groin was getting a little tight on me," Johnson said Wednesday in a Zoom interview.