Max Johnson and Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher.
Owen legend Brad Johnson’s son has picked up scholarship offers from Florida State and Miami before ever playing a down of high school football.
Max Johnson is a 6-foot-3, 175-pound incoming freshman quarterback at Oconee County (Ga.).
His father is a 1987 Warhorses graduate. Brad Johnson played college football for Florida State before going on to an NFL career with the Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He won a Super Bowl for Tampa Bay in 2002.
Oconee County is located in Watkinsville, Ga., which is just south of Athens.
The Warriors’ coach? Pisgah alum Travis Noland, who was formerly a Western North Carolina head coach at Erwin and Tuscola.
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