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Josh Johnson (running back)

American football player (born 1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ110094742 ↗
Source-derived summary

Josh Johnson (born December 26, 1997) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks.

Professional career

Johnson was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent on May 13, 2020. He was waived on August 31, 2021, during final roster cuts, but re-signed to the team's practice squad the following day. Johnson was elevated to the active roster on November 29, 2021, for the team's Week 12 game against the Washington Football Team. He was signed to the active roster on January 4, 2022.

On August 30, 2022, Johnson was waived/injured by the Seahawks and placed on injured reserve. He was released on September 8.

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“Josh Johnson (running back)” enters the record as american football player (born 1997). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Josh, Johnson and running can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2020, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Josh, Johnson and running.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110094742. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Josh Johnson (running back)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.