Calvin Johnson, please be careful. The Lions’ wide receiver is the latest athlete to grace the cover of the Madden NFL video game, an honor fraught with peril.
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Calvin Johnson, please be careful. The Lions' wide receiver is the latest athlete to grace the cover of the Madden NFL video game, an honor fraught with peril.
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The freakishly talented Detroit Lions wide receiver leads the league in yards (1,681), touchdowns (16) and now, money: a new 8-year, $132 million contract makes him the highest-paid pass catcher in the game. But after a season in which he was responsible for 20% of all points the Lions scored, is there anywhere to go but down?