Cedric Murrell Jeremy Johnson's youth football coach The views are strikingly similar, from the way the small child with the beaming smile quickly impressed them, both as a player and person, to how they've followed Jeremy Johnson through the years. Once Jeremy could play organized ball, he showed more than skin. Because he was bigger than kids his age, plus dad Ojedita's desire to push him, Jeremy played in leagues for those a year or two older.