Brett Johnson bowl
Brett Johnson has played every game this season after missing two years with serious injuries.
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00:00 Qualifying the performance of an interior defensive lineman is difficult to do.
00:07 Statistics do not tell the story because players at that position don't rack up a lot of tackles.
00:12 They pretty much occupy offensive linemen, allowing others to make the plays.
00:16 But by any measure, Brett Johnson's season has been a success.
00:20 He's coming off two years in which he did not play at all.
00:23 He suffered a multiple fracture of his hip in 2021, missed all of that season, then tore his ACL in fall camp in 2022, missed another full season.
00:35 He had not played a game in 1,001 days before the Bears' September 2 opener against North Texas,
00:43 but he played all 12 games this year and he'll be in the starting lineup Saturday when the Bears play against Texas Tech at the Independence Bowl.
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