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Training Camp Notebook: Play Count for Johnson?

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

In baseball, pitchers are often kept on pitch counts to maintain their workloads. Fantasy football fans, get ready for the "play count." Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said during Wednesday's news conference that star running back Larry Johnson will be on "a little bit of a leash" in Week 1. The decision comes on the heels of Johnson's record-setting 416 carries last season, then his lengthy holdout that concluded Aug. 21. With Johnson coming off a season in which he had such a hefty workload, then ...

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