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By Mark Babineck
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — It’s taken three games for
Andre Johnson to go from intriguing rookie to the
Texans’ go-to guy, a playmaking receiver who
demands special attention from defenses.
“He’s a guy that we liked in the draft and think
he has big-time talent,” Jacksonville coach Jack
Del Rio said Wednesday as his Jaguars prepare for
[their trip to Houston this
weekend. “I think he’s doing
a nice job for them.”
Del Rio wouldn’t say if
the Jaguars would try specif
ically to slow Johnson down.
“How we want to attack
the Texans is our business,”
he told Houston reporters.
But Texans’ quarterback
David Carr has noticed the
Saints and Chiefs altered their defensive strategy
even as they were blowing out Houston.
“Toward the end of the last two games (defen
sive backs) have kind of rolled over toward him
because he’s a guy that could make a big play, turn
the football game around with one catch,” Carr
said of Johnson.
Last Sunday, when the defense and special
teams running game endured severe lapses that
allowed Kansas City to roll to a 42-14 victory in
the Texans’ home opener, Johnson consistently
stayed above it all. He caught seven passes for 102
yards and made highlight films with his two
touchdowns.
The first, when the Texans were still in the
game, came on a perfectly thrown ball by Carr that
hit Johnson in stride on a post route on which
Johnson used his superior speed to beat the
Chiefs’ secondary. The second, a late fourth quar
ter score with Tony Banks quarterbacking,
required Johnson’s strength, agility and grit to
take a ball in the Hat and muscle his way into the
JOHNSON
end zone.
Johnson is among the NFL’s early receiving
leaders with 249 yards on 18 catches, his name
among the likes of Randy Moss and Isaac Bruce.
The only other rookie in the top 10 is currently the
league’s No. 2 receiver, Anquan Boldin, the NFL’s
early out-of-nowhere success story.
Unlike fellow University of Miami pass catch
ers like Michael Irvin and Jeremy Shockey,
Johnson is satisfied with letting his play do the
talking for him.
‘‘I think I’ve done pretty
well,” he said. “Sometimes
you go out there and make
mistakes, but you have to
come back and watch the
film and correct them. As
long as you’re going out and
getting better and not mak
ing the same mistakes, it’s a
positive for you.”
He’ll continue to work
on his route-running and his reads and make the
adjustments that all rookie receivers must make.
The downside to the success, Carr believes, is
that Johnson might have seen some of the
last soft coverage of his career just 180 minutes
into it.
“Other guys are going to have to make plays,”
Carr said, referring to fellow receivers Corey
Bradford, Jabar Gaffney and tight end Billy
Miller. “When teams pay that much attention to
(Johnson) — which they probably will for the next
couple of games, this year and forever in his career
— the other guys around him are going to get a
chance to make plays.”
NOTES: The Texans’ injury report is as clean
as it’s been in a while. A variety of ailments have
six players listed as probable, including Pro Bowl
defensive end Gary Walker, who got his first play
ing time of the season Sunday as he recovers from
a sore left shoulder. Walker said he was feeling
even better Wednesday and hoped to make a con
tribution against Jacksonville, his old team.
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eventual 49-21 loss to the Wolfpack, despite Symons’s incredible
performance.
Tech may lead the nation in passing offense with 493.3 yards
per game, but its porous defense could be its downfall this week
end, as the team is ranked 104th in overall defense, giving up 446
yards per game.
As for the Rebels, Heisman candidate and senior quarterback
Eli Manning will lead the charge.
After a week off, the Rebels should be ready to roll as Ole Miss
enters the contest averaging 39 points per game, leading the
Southeast Conference in passing and total offense. However, they
too suffer from a suspect defense that is ranked 11th in the league,
giving up a critical 26.3 points per game.
If these two teams continue to put up these kind of stats, they
may need to add some extra zeros to the scoreboard in Oxford.
Iowa State hopes to avoid upset
In another intriguing non-conference matchup, the Iowa State
Cyclones (2-1) will be heading into Husky territory to battle
upstart Northern Illinois (3-0). The Cyclones may be overmatched
in this one, coming in with a new quarterback in redshirt freshman
Austin Flynn.
Although currently putting up some big numbers, Flynn will
have to be in the zone to beat a tough Husky team.
Meanwhile, the No. 20 Huskies should come in on cloud nine
after having beaten a ranked Maryland team to open the season,
and bushwhacking Alabama at Tuscaloosa last weekend, 19-16,
causing a small earthquake as Bear Bryant rolled over in his grave.
Doak Walker candidate and senior running back Michael Turner
will attempt to have another field day at the expense of an oppos
ing defense, as he is already averaging 126.7 yards per contest.
Kickoff is set for 3:05 p.m. on Saturday.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Dotson will be
extradited to
Texas for trial
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) —
Gov, Robert Ehrlich has
signed a warrant calling for
the extradition of Carlton
Dotson from Maryland to
Texas, where he faces
charges of murdering his for
mer Baylor University basket-
bail teammate.
The paperwork was forward
ed Wednesday to the sheriff’s
office in Kent County, where
Dotson, 21, is being held, said
Ehrlich spokeswoman
Shareese DeLeaver. Texas
authorities now have a month
to pick up Dotson and return
him to McLennan County,
where he was indicted last
month in the shooting death of
Patrick Dennehy.
Before returning to Texas,
Maryland prosecutors have to
serve the warrant on him in
court, said Aja Foster, a
spokeswoman for the office of
Maryland’s secretary of state.
A Kent County District Court
hearing had been set for Oct.
14, but that date may be
moved up now that the war-
rant has been signed, author
ities said.
A call by The Associated
Press seeking comment from
Dotson’s attorneys was not
immediately returned on
Wednesday.
Ehrlich signed the warrant
Tuesday, one of the final steps
in the extradition process, after
receiving a recommendation
this week from an assistant
attorney general.
Dotson refused to return
voluntarily to Texas, but nei
ther he nor his lawyers
attended the extradition hear
ing last week in Annapolis
that he had requested.
Texas prosecutors say
Dotson shot 21-year-old
Dennehy in June. Dennehy’s
body was found in a field near
a rock quarry southeast of
Waco July 25. He died of two
gunshot wounds to the head,
according to an autopsy report.
Dotson has been held in the
Kent County jail since he was
arrested July 21.
The fallout at Baylor from
Dennehy’s death included the
revelation that former basket
ball coach Dave Bliss had paid
players’ tuition and that failed
drug tests were suppressed.
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Robert Sloan accepted the res
ignations of Bliss and Athletic
Director Tom Stanton and put
the basketball team on two-
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