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D.J. Johnson

Washington Commanders
Pos EDGE
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

65.6 MODEL
2023
66.7
2024
65.6

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 80 · Carolina Panthers · 2023
Oregon (Pac-12)
Taken
#80
where he actually went
Consensus board
62nd
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#835
among EDGE in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2022 · 12 games
6.0 sacks, 8 TFL, 7 pressures, 39 tackles

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

What this pick usually becomes

Of the 410 players taken as a third-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 51% earned a second contract and 39% became starters. The median one started 21 career games.

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