Jets’ Jermaine Johnson impressed by paralyzed greatest buddy who will lastly watch him stay

Jermaine Johnson will probably be making his long-anticipated return to the sector on Sunday after dropping all however two video games of his 2024 season to a ruptured proper Achilles.

And when the fourth-year Jets edge rusher costs out of the tunnel and onto the MetLife Stadium turf to play the Steelers, he is not going to be alone basking in that highly effective second.

Johnson’s greatest buddy from childhood, Adam Daggs, will probably be within the constructing for the primary time. Daggs will probably be watching from his wheelchair together with his household and a nurse by his facet always. And he’ll be carrying the widest smile within the place.

Daggs, at age 16, was paralyzed from the neck down when he was hit by a automotive whereas using his bicycle house from a buddy’s home in his and Johnson’s neighborhood in Eden Prairie, Minn.