SAN DIEGO – San Diego State football head coach Brady Hoke has announced that Lucas Johnson has signed a Grant-in-Aid to join the Aztec program. Johnson, who starred at nearby Mt. Carmel High School and then played at Georgia Tech, will have two years of eligibility at SDSU.
Johnson played in 14 games over his career with the Yellow Jackets, starting twice, completing 21 of 37 passes (56.8 pct.) for 187 yards and a touchdown. He also carried the ball 23 times for 44 yards. All 37 of Johnson's pass attempts came last year, when he started two of his five appearances. If you take away the four times he was sacked in 2019, he rushed 19 times for 68 yards.
At Mt. Carmel, Johnson passed for 5,474 yards and 49 touchdowns over his career, while adding 2,546 yards and 35 touchdowns on the ground. As a senior, he totaled 3,737 yards, including 2,571 passing yards and 26 touchdowns, and 1,166 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns, while earning first-team all-CIF honors. The MCHS team finished with a 9-4 record when Johnson was a senior and made the 2015 Division II state championship game, the school's first appearance in a title game in 30 years. Johnson also garnered first-team all-region accolades as a senior and was the Palomar League MVP. A three-time first-team all-league honoree and three-time team captain, Johnson amassed 2,104 yards (1,456 passing, 648 rushing) and 25 touchdowns (13 passing, 12 rushing) as a junior. He was also the starting quarterback for the North squad in the 2016 Blue-Grey All-American Bowl in Tampa, Fla. Johnson also was a four-year letter winner and three-year team captain in basketball, and earned two letters in track and field, captaining one season.
The Aztecs are coming off a 10-3 season in 2019, capped by a 48-11 win over Central Michigan in the New Mexico Bowl. SDSU, which lost its three games by a combined 13 points last year, is one of 10 schools to win at least 10 games in at least four of the last five seasons.
Football Adds Quarterback Lucas Johnson to the Program
