{"id":7806,"date":"2025-04-28T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7806\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:54:11","slug":"paris-johnson-jr-completely-healthy-as-cardinals-kick-off-offseason-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7806\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Johnson Jr. &#8216;Completely&#8217; Healthy As Cardinals Kick Off Offseason Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there is continuity among the players on the offensive line (the Cardinals re-signed left guard Evan Brown and veteran tackle Kelvin Beachum), there is a new voice leading the room. Ohio State offensive line coach Justin Frye was hired after Klayton Adams departed to become the Cowboys&#8217; offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Cardinals got the coach who helped elevate Johnson&#8217;s game in college to ultimately become a first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The communication, the techniques, the stuff I feel like we communication on, we&#8217;re on the same page a lot.&#8221; Johnson said of reuniting with Frye. &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m starting to revert back to the training development that (helped) to get to this point, but now I&#8217;ve added the tools and the physical experience of playing my first two years already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the draft being days away, Johnson would love for his Ohio State brethren to be selected because of the familiarity with Frye&#8217;s coaching style. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/news\/as-draft-approaches-cardinals-consider-game-s-trench-warfare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The trenches are a priority<\/a>, and Buckeyes offensive linemen Josh Simmons and Donovan Jackson have previously been mocked to the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson speaking up is intentional. Since entering the facility, even though he&#8217;s the usually one of youngest guys in the room, there&#8217;s been an emphasis on leadership. Being vocal now goes beyond his game day role of pumping up his fellow lineman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to work on being able to communicate, not only on the hype side, but trying to communicate team goals,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a step I&#8217;ll have to take. The calmer version of communicating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That step has been taken with the first day of voluntary workouts in the books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The offseason, especially with me being hurt, felt longer than usual,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Having that itch to get back to work and be back in the building with the guys, I&#8217;m very excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there is continuity among the players on the offensive line (the Cardinals re-signed left guard Evan Brown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1051,7,1053,1052,88,6,5222,1252],"class_list":{"0":"post-7806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-featured-articles","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","15":"tag-mega-feed","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-paris-johnson-jr","19":"tag-zach-gershman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114417347096041728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}