Essay On Johnny Manziel

At the end of every College football season there is an award given to the all around best player of that current season. The Heisman Trophy is the name of that award and it is the most prestigious award a College football player can receive. In 2012, the first ever Freshman to win the Heisman Trophy was Texas A&M quarterback, Johnny Manziel. Johnny broke numerous records as quarterback and was on track to be the greatest quarterback college football has ever seen. However, he cut his college career short and decided to go play in the National Football League and that’s where things started to go bad.

In college, Johnny Manziel was known as the best football player but also as a huge partier. This was a red flag for a lot of NFL organizations

because no one wanted to pick up a player that came with a lot of drama. Overlooking the drama side of Johnny Manziel, the Cleveland Browns drafted him in the first round of the NFL draft in 2014. During his time with the Browns, Johnny proved all the critics about him right and was a wrecking ball. Johnny Manziel was bad off the field and also bad on the field. After his first season in the NFL he was already checked into rehab for his wild ways. Finally, after two seasons with the Browns, Johnny was released from the team. Johnny is a very talented football player with lots of potential to compete with the best in the NFL. However, Johnny got too caught up in the fame and lost his spark for football and started to focus on partying and acting like an animal.
Johnny Manziel announced this month that he isn’t going to let the partying take away his dreams.

ESPN’s Ed Werder met with Manziel and the former Heisman trophy winner claimed that he has changed his life for the better and is ready to restart his career as a quarterback in the NFL. However, just because he claimed that he changed his life around and would like to continue playing in the league doesn’t necessarily mean that any team will even want to take him. Looking at the situation from a team owner’s perspective, there seems to be many issues with Johnny Manziel. The first issue would be all the attention that he would attract to the organization. The attention from picking up Johnny as your quarterback would not be great for team chemistry and would take the spotlight off the team’s better players. The second issue is that you can’t trust him to act like a professional. As owner of the organization, how can you trust a player like Manziel who spiraled out of control in just two years. Manziel would have a lot to prove to show that he is focused on playing football and nothing else. The final issue dealing with Johnny Manziel is that whenever he returns to the NFL he will already have a four game suspension for substance abuse from his last season in the league. This issue speaks for itself, Johnny Manziel is a huge liability to any organization that decides to pick him up as

quarterback.
The issues with Johnny Manziel asking for another shot in the National Football League are pretty self explanatory.

Johnny claimed in the interview with ESPN that, “I only need one team to believe in me”. Clearly Johnny is trying everything in his will to earn a spot back on a team but there needs to be more than just words to prove that he has matured and is ready for the next step. As an owner or coach of an organization, Johnny would have to take multiple drug tests and alcohol screenings to prove that he is living sober. The next step would be too make him earn his position with the team, examples of this would be too build positive relationships with teammates and coaches and also the fans. If Johnny can realize that the team doesn’t need him then that should motivate him to be better and put out plenty of effort. Another way to get Johnny to prove he is on the right track is to talk with his agent and get him doing free volunteer work and participating in events with kids such as summer camps. If an organization takes a gamble on him and decides to pick him up, then the organization should set strict rules for him to abide by. The reasoning behind giving Johnny Manziel strict rules is simply due to the fact that a lot of people’s careers could be riding on the decision to give him a second chance. These people consist of team owners, coaches, players and also Johnny’s sport

agent.
Johnny Manziel was one of the most exciting football players to watch on the field and to see him trying to turn his life around and continue pursing his NFL dreams is a great thing. However, it is going to take a lot of faith and courage in an organization to decide to pick him up. The best thing for Johnny Manziel is to send him to the Canadian Football League for a year or two and let him re-channel his love for the game of football. A few years in the CFL would definitely prove if the once great Johnny Manziel is ready for the big stage again.