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UW's Jaylen Johnson Joins Weber State Coaching Staff

Former Husky defensive tackle earns a full-time job at Big Sky school.
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UW's Jaylen Johnson Joins Weber State Coaching Staff
UW's Jaylen Johnson Joins Weber State Coaching Staff

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Jaylen Johnson went head to head against Alabama in the College Football Playoff, as a sturdy defensive tackle for one of the best University of Washington football teams. He spent the past two seasons as a graduate assistant coach, watching the fall and rise again of Husky football. 

Johnson has seen it all in the college game, experiencing the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in Montlake, making him the ideal hire for someone.

On Tuesday, Weber State saw all of his vast potential and hired Johnson to coach the Big Sky team's defensive tackles.

"Thank you to UW Football for taking care of me for the last nine years!" Johnson wrote on social media. "Now its time to GRIND and prove all those who had my back Right!"

Through the unraveling of the Jimmy Lake coaching tenure to the glorious launch of Kalen DeBoer's for the Huskies, Johnson unfailingly was that cheerful and upbeat personality coming off the practice field, greeting everyone he encountered.

Johnson wasn't a bad player either, redshirting in 2014 and getting in four seasons at the UW for Chris Petersen's Huskies, earning All-Pac-12 honorable-mention honors as a senior.

The 6-foot-3, 286-pound California native finished his career with 73 tackles, including 12 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks, while starting 13 of 50 Husky games played.

Johnson will join a new Weber State coaching staff headed up by Mickey Mental, who inherits a 10-3 team.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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