Houston Texans Media Conference

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Houston, Texas, USA

Cameron Johnston

Press Conference


Q. You decided to join these guys. What are some of the reasons you picked the Texans?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Just to play for Coach Ross. He's amazing. What he was selling with the guys when he got down here, the speed on the outside. It's incredible to come down and be able to work with Jon and Ka'imi. It's a good time to be down here.

Q. Are you familiar with the Australian connection to University of Houston?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yes, Dane Roy when he was there. He just finished a little while ago. And Laine as well. I know them quite well. They all went through the same program together. Dane had a good career there. He was really good.

Q. You knew those guys?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yeah, we went through a similar program, and we all stay in touch to help each other out.

Q. Is there a bit of a community to plug into around that?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yeah, it's good. I've hung out with them a few times, gone punting with them. There's a guy from Texas as well. He's an Australian guy as well. So we all try and stay close.

Q. What was the first time you punted in football and putting it into American football?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: It's a while ago now. I think it was 2010 when I decided to do it. There's a program in Australian, ProKick Australia run by Nathan Chapman. Just went down there and did it with him. Within a year, he was able to get me to Ohio State, played four years there. Incredible program being able to get you over here.

Q. You worked with several kickers now.

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yeah.

Q. How do you approach that? It can take like really detail.

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Whatever the kicker wants. You're just doing your job to make the kicker's life as easy as possible. Just whatever they need, you make sure you get it done.

Q. What is he like?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: He's pretty simple. He's good. He likes to get the ball down and just likes to hammer it. You see him out there. He hits the ball really well.

Q. What about the accuracy in Jon Weeks?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: He's incredible. I've never seen anything like it. That guy is an incredible snapper. Being able to work with him, it's impressive seeing what he does and his attention to detail every day. You can see why he's been in the league so long and he's still one of the top three in the NFL doing it.

Q. Those guys ever bring up your hit on Alvin Kamara?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: No, that was a while ago now.

Q. Special teams units always seem to be so really detail oriented. Do you guys try and like time things or get things down?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yeah, it's the whole this time right now and then leading up to it, you're just doing as much work as possible to make everyone feel comfortable with the operation. It happens so quickly, so you've got to make sure you're on top of it and ready to roll.

Q. Are you nearing the time where you want to be?

CAMERON JOHNSTON: Yeah, we're all good. It's nice. We've got to keep 1 percent better every day type of thing.

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