Jason Johnson Season 2022

SENIOR (2022)
- Started all 14 games
- First-team All-AAC selection in 2022 by vote of league coaches and by Phil Steele
- Second-team All-AAC by Pro Football Network
- Finished as leading UCF tackler with 126
- Ranked 31st nationally and third in AAC at 9.0 tackles per game
- Boasts 43 career starts—14 at UCF, 29 at Eastern Illinois
- Team-leading 12 tackles (9 solo) vs. Louisville
- Led team with 10 tackles and one TFL vs. FAU
- Team-leading eight tackles and one QB hurry vs. Georgia Tech
- Logged a team-high-tying nine tackles vs. SMU plusone fumble recovery
- Tallied a team-high nine tackles vs. Temple, plus one TFL and one QBH
- Recorded a game-high 15 tackles at ECU, plus one QBH
- Team-high seven tackles, half a sack for 2 and 1.5 TFL for 3 and 1 QBH vs. Cincinnati
- Notched a team-high 13 tackles vs. Memphis
- At Tulane, recorded a team-high-tying eight tackles, one sack for 12 yards, one forced fumble
- Had a team-high-tying 13 tackles vs. Navy including half a TFL
- Made team-high 11 tackles at USF
- Made 5 tackles, 1 FF, 1 FR vs. Tulane in AAC title game
- Had 7 tackles and 1 QBH vs. Duke in Military Bowl
- Third in AAC and 22nd (tie) nationally in fumble recoveries (2);

PRIOR TO UCF
--Transferred to UCF from Eastern Illinois where he was a two-time FCS All-American
--Stared every game at linebacker in 2020 and 2021 at Eastern Illinois
--First-team all-Ohio Valley Conference linebacker in 2020 and 2021
--Led Ohio Valley Conference in tackles in 2021 with 112
--Named to Hero Sophomore All-America team in both 2020 and 2021
--Recovered four fumbles in 2021 to tie for FCS lead and also had eight tackles for loss
--Started all six games of 2020 campaign that was played in spring 2021
--Made 66 tackles and had six tackles for loss, one sack and one forced fumble, leading Ohio Valley Conference in tackles per game and ranking ninth in FCS
--Made 15 tackles vs. Tennessee Tech and 14 vs. Tennessee State
--Played in 10 games and started six times as true freshman in 2019
--Named to Ohio Valley Conference All-Newcomer team in 2019
--Made 59 tackles to go with 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack, one forced fumbles, one fumble recovery in 2019
--Made 12 tackles vs. Southeast Missouri
--Named second-team Freshman All-American by Phil Steele for 2019
--Played linebacker and receiver at Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields, Illinois
--Southland Conference Defensive MVP as senior in 2018
--Made 92 tackles, with 12 tackles for loss and three sacks while helping team to Illinois 5A playoffs
--Named first-team all-conference and second-team all-area
--Caught 26 passes for 569 yards and four touchdowns as senior
--Team captain in 2018 as senior
 
PERSONAL
--Majoring in integrative general studies in College of Undergraduate Studies