Michigan Recruit Quits Over Health, Keeps Scholarship

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Michigan football 2020 quarterback commit JD Johnson has been forced by a heart condition to retire from football, but he’ll get to keep his scholarship.

Johnson posted to twitter this week, saying a birth defect that was diagnosed when he was 12 called a coarctation of the aorta was the reason he would be giving up football. Johnson was told that he did not meet the clearance standard to continue playing a contact sport for fear that his aorta could rupture, or that not enough blood would get to his brain, causing a field stroke. 

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