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Buddy Johnson

LB·Chicago Bears·#47·5th year
Round 4, pick 140 in 2021
Updated November 10, 2026

Buddy Johnson is an LB for the Chicago Bears (updated November 10, 2026).

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Plays like: Hayes Pullard, Audie Cole, Danny Clark. Coming out: Ryan Connelly, Cody Barton, Donald Butler.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 4 starters, 8 backups, 7 didn't stick.

Buddy Johnson Injury StatusNot listed

Buddy Johnson is not on the injury report as of Nov 9. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 4, pick 140 to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2021, out of Texas A&M (SEC). He went about where consensus had him.

Taken#140
Consensus board169th
Our college model#148 LB

In college, 2017-2020, 49 games: 203 tackles, 24 TFL, 5.5 sacks, 1 INT.

What this pick usually becomes. Of the 450 players taken as a fourth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 38% earned a second contract and 25% became starters. The median one started 11 career games.

Recruited

Class of 2017 · Linebacker · High school: Kimball, Dallas, TX

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 348 in the nation. Composite 0.8908, the recruiting sites' average
Offers
Partial list
None on record beyond his commitment
Committed to

Partial offer list. Offer lists for the 2017 class are partial everywhere we can read them: we hold 3 or more offers for 62 of 4,706 recruits, and we grade only those boards.

College: Texas A&M 2017-20

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