Running back Larry Johnson met with reporters for the first time since signing with the Redskins. "I don't say it's a fresh start. I mean, there've been so many fresh starts I've done had," Johnson said. "This is more like I'm just going into a different era of my own -- pretty much coming in here and being here and trying to work as hard as I can to impress the coaches and to see where it goes from there. I don't want to say it's a fresh start. Being 30, your fresh starts are already gone. I definitely came in here with the mindset of coming in and working hard for Coach Shanahan." Johnson said he has spoken with Clinton Portis and though the two haven't talked much football, he thinks they can help each other. Johnson is 30 and Portis has plenty of mileage on his legs, so the two could benefit by sharing the backfield. "We kind of complement each other. ...It's never, 'Oh, I'm coming here to take your spot.' It's never been no kind of feel like that," Johnson said. Johnson doesn't expect to decline with his advanced age. "I still have a lot left. People keep forgetting I didn't really play much my first couple of years in NFL, let alone college. I still have a lot of burn left and haven't really been nicked up or hurt, thank God, as far as my whole career. "This is really me just kind of smooth it on out, kind of like a Cadillac; it never really loses its luster, just kind of moves on in." RealGM Note: Johnson backed up Priest Holmes when he first was drafted by Kansas City.