Eddie Johnson enters his third year as the wide receivers and strength and conditioning coach at Savannah State University.
He comes to SSU from Newberry College, where in three years he helped improve a team once at the bottom of the South Atlantic Conference to a 25-8 record, a conference championship, and a birth in the 2006 Division II playoffs.
During the summer of 2005, Johnson was selected to participate in the National Football League's minority coaches program with the Carolina Panthers.
Prior to that, Johnson served four years on the Lenoir-Rhyne coaching staff as the running backs and defensive backs coach from 2000-2004. Two years before that, he served as wide receivers coach and defensive coordinator at Wingate University.
Johnson also coached outside linebackers and defensive backs at Wofford College in 1998-99, served as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach at Marietta College in Ohio from 1996-97, and running backs coach at his alma mater, Georgetown College in Kentucky, from 1993-95.
Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in business administration and finance from Georgetown College in 1993. As a player, he was a four year letterman at running back and was a member of the 1991 NAIA national championship team and the 1992 NAIA runners-up. Johnson went on to complete his master's degree in liberal learning from Marietta College in Ohio in 1998.
Johnson and his wife, Becky, are the proud parents of three children: Taylor, Benjamin and Matthew.
