The defensive line Walter Nolen and the corner half Will Johnson, the Arizona cardinals“The first two selections of the NFL 2025 draft are teammates for the first time. Nolen played college for Texas A&M, then Ole Miss. Johnson played for Michigan.
However, if things had disappeared a few years ago, it would not have been the first time that they were teammates.
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Johnson, when he was presented to the media on Thursday at the Cardinals team headquarters in Temple, revealed that he had tried to have Nolen of Michigan choose.
“When we were recruited outside the school, we both tried to play together, and that did not end up working,” he said. “One of my teammates in which I was with Michigan, he was from Memphis, and Walter was obviously a big name that came out of high school, and we were trying to get it in Michigan.
“I was in a way the favorite of our class, so I was just trying to do everything I could to bring him to Michigan, so I did things like when we were in high school. I went to Martin Luther King High School and he thought about coming to Detroit to go to high school, so I went there with him to hang this type of scene.
In the end, Nolen did not go to Michigan.
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This time there was no recruitment. The cardinals have selected the two players and now they are NFL teammates.
Now it is their work to be a good as a pros that they were in college.
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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Will Johnson tried to recruit Walter Nolen in Michigan
