12-Year-Old Running Back Goes Viral Because The Internet Can’t Believe He’s Really 12

Talented 12-year-old running back Jeremiah Johnson recently had himself a weekend, winning the 12U MVP honors at the Youth National Championships in Miami.

The only thing tarnishing, if you can even call it that, is that almost no one on the internet believes he is actually 12-years-old.

Now then, if you have spent any time around a competitive youth sport these days then you know that every now and then a kid shows up who looks like he is way older than his team claims. This is the case with Jeremiah Johnson.

It happens all the time and while most of the time it’s just one of those flukes of nature that makes a kid so big, sometimes, and you won’t believe this, teams cheat.

However, according to several people on the internet running back Jeremiah Johnson is a legit 12-years-old… with a full mustache… and a sleeve tattoo on his right arm.

Are we sure this isn’t Jeremiah Johnson, the 35-year-old former running back who played college football at Oregon then in the NFL before leading the CFL in rushing touchdowns in 2015?

Or Jeremiah Johnson, the sophomore running back at Missouri State University?

It’s questions like that the internet has been asking ever since photos of 12-year-old running back Jeremiah Johnson went viral this week.

https://twitter.com/deion_baker/status/1602414853804920833

“He been copping cigarettes for his mom since 8,” someone joked.

“Bro that dude look like 35 going on 48. Wtf that’s the oldest 12 year old I ever seen in my damn life. I give up I’ve seen it all now,” another person wrote.

Someone else asked if the 12-year-old running back was born in a leap year?

“Na he’s good but me and my team played him and shut him down but can’t believe he 12,” someone replied.

Even Tyreek Hill can’t believe it.

Okay, so if he really is just 12-years-old is he really a baller?

Well, here are some highlights from his 10U season where he is a full head taller than everyone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2vlDoc0uw

Pretty good.