The 57-year-old Johnson recorded 379 tackles, 12 tackles for loss and five sacks in four seasons with the Buckeyes from 1982-85. He was a two-time team captain, an All-American as a senior and ...

Former Giants linebacker and current Buffalo Bills assistant Pepper Johnson will interview for the Giants' vacant defensive coordinator position. (AP photo/Alex Brandon) The Giants are already ...

Pepper Johnson, the New England Patriots inside linebackers coach, was cringing on the home team sidelines at the old Foxboro Stadium as he watched franchise quarterback Drew Bledsoe drift out of the ...

FLORHAM PARK — Pepper Johnson, no stranger to Jets and Giants fans alike, and a longtime NFL position coach, had thought he nailed it when he interviewed for the job of Giants defensive coordinator ...

Mike Reiss is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has covered the Patriots since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the ...

Pepper Johnson said his charges on the Jets' defensive line don't get one-on-one instruction from him for one simple reason. "If I did that, they would hate me," said Johnson, the Jets' defensive line ...

A two-time Super Bowl winning player and three-time winner as a coach, Pepper knows what it is to win the big dance. Serving as a linebackers coach and then defensive line coach for Bill Belichick, ...

ORCHARD PARK -- The Buffalo Bills announced Friday night that Pepper Johnson has agreed to terms to become the team's defensive line coach. A five-time Super Bowl champion, Johnson will enter his 15th ...