Former area football standout signs with Hampton University
Fred Jeter | 1/15/2016, 7:54 a.m.
Former L.C. Bird High School sensation Yahkee Johnson has signed a full National Letter of Intent to continue football next season at Hampton University.
The official signing was conducted Jan. 3 at New Life Deliverance Tabernacle, where Johnson’s grandfather, the Rev. Robert Winfree, serves as pastor.
The ultraquick 5-foot-8, 175-pound Johnson rushed for more than 4,000 yards and 50 touchdowns as a junior and senior at Bird in 2011 and 2012.
In 2014, Johnson carried for 945 yards and 10 touchdowns in helping Nassau Community College of Garden City, N.Y., win the National Junior College title. Johnson did not play football this past season.
He hails from an athletic family.
His brother, Robert Johnson Jr., is a starting basketball guard at Indiana University.
Another brother, Malik Johnson, is a student at Blue Ridge School and recently signed a scholarship offer with Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y.
Their father, Robert Johnson Sr., is a former basketball standout at George Wythe High School and Virginia Union University and currently is an assistant coach at VUU.
