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Dyontae Johnson’s Interest in Engineering Spurred by His Late Father

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TOLEDO, Ohio –Dyontae Johnson has always been curious about how things work. That probably helps explain why the University of Toledo senior linebacker ended up as a mechanical engineering major.

From a very early age, Dyontae liked to take things apart and put them back together. His father, David, was a mechanic who took the time to show Dyontae and his older brother Davion how to tinker with their electronic gizmos, and (hopefully) fix them. And if something needed to be put together, David always made sure his sons were there to see how it was done.