Ex-CSU Star Gartrell Johnson Impresses in Pre-season Affair for Chargers

Gartrell Johnson is blessed and cursed at the same time. He went to Colorado State, a school known for their love of the running game, a blessing. “The Predator,” as he was lovingly called in Fort Collins, was the 2008 first-team All-Mountain West running back, and finished his career with the Rams with a 285-yard two-touchdown vintage Gartrell game against Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl last December. In the entire 2008 season, Johnson eclipsed the 1,100-yard mark, and caught 32 passes for 295 yards as well. All that production led to his being drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the fourth round, a blessing in itself just to make it to the NFL, but a curse at the same time as the Chargers have one of the best runners in the league playing there in LaDanian Tomlinson.   To finish reading this article, continue on here.