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The Lions won 11 games and advanced to the playoffs last year without getting a huge season from wide receiver Calvin Johnson.

An ankle injury kept Johnson out of the lineup entirely for three games and limited him in others. He finished the year with 71 catches for 1,077 yards, his lowest totals since 2009. It’s the second straight year that Johnson has been banged up and that may have some wondering if he’s done putting up monster numbers.

Johnson says he feels healthy now and has “no doubt” that there are big years ahead for him and the Lions offense as a whole.

“What’d I miss, four, almost five games last year? Still came up with just over 1,000. So I still have some production left,” Johnson said, via the Detroit News. “I feel good, man, I’m in a good place right now. I had a whole offseason to heal up. The biggest difference from last year is, we know the offense way better, simply because it’s the second year in. I can almost say we’re 100 percent better than last year at this time.”

The Lions should be more comfortable in offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi’s scheme, but they will also need their offseason moves to upgrade the run game to pay off and also find a receiving threat to go with Johnson and Golden Tate to make things take off. If they get that and a healthy Johnson, the Lions shouldn’t have too rely as heavily on their defense as they did last year in their attempt to make back-to-back postseasons for the first time in 20 years.