Johnson and Sample Named to the 2021 Reese’s Senior Bowl Top 250 List
Aug 20, 2020 | Football
NEW ORLEANS – Tulane University football seniors Patrick Johnson and Cameron Sample were both named to the Top 250 Watch List on Thursday by the Reese's Senior Bowl.
The Reese's Senior Bowl is the nation's most prestigious college all-star game, as it annually serves as the first step of the NFL draft process.
"These two guys have truly set the bar with where we want to be as a program," Tulane head coach Willie Fritz said. "They both give tremendous effort in practice, the weight room and the classroom, and I could not be more excited for these young men. I am also really hopeful that we have a few more players earn invitations to this game once they showcase what they can do this season."
Both Johnson and Sample enter the 2020 season with a combined 52 starts, 201 tackles, 37.5 tackles for loss and 19 sacks.
Johnson earned the recognition after leading the Green Wave in sacks for the second straight season in 2019 – a feat only five players have accomplished since 1973. Over the past two seasons, Johnson has tallied 14.5 sacks and ranks tied for seventh all-time in program history. He needs just 8.5 sacks to become the program's all-time sack leader. Following his strong 2019 campaign, Johnson earned All-AAC Second Team honors for the second year in a row. Johnson enters his final season with hopes of earning All-AAC honors for the third straight year – a feat only Parry Nickerson and Nico Marley have achieved.
Sample was named to the Top 250 list after posting a strong junior campaign where he compiled a single-season career-high in tackles. His 44 stops on the year ranked seventh on the team and rank fourth among Tulane returnees. Sample was one of 13 players that started every game last season.
The Reese's Senior Bowl has had 93 total players drafted and 40 selected in the first three rounds each of the past two years, including 10 first-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft. Those 93 represent nearly 40 percent of all draft selections in the past two years. The Reese's Senior Bowl features the participation of two full NFL coaching staffs.
Last year, the two teams were coached by the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals and was highlighted by over 900 credentialed NFL personnel in Mobile, Alabama, for game week.
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