Talk about your busy days. Andrew Johnson worked overtime and then some Tuesday.

The Woodrow Wilson rising junior played in two basketball games for the Flying Eagles Tuesday morning (both, coincidentally enough, overtime wins over George Washington and Wheeling Park in Charleston).

Then, Tuesday evening, Johnson participated in the Flying Eagles’ Maroon and White 7-on-7 Football Game.

“I don’t get tired when I’m doing stuff like this; it’s fun,” said Johnson. “I’ll get tired later. I’ll probably go to sleep early. No... I’ll probably go to that ‘Transformers’ movie tonight at (midnight). Maybe I’ll go to sleep there.”

Whether or not he did, only he knows.

But he certainly wasn’t asleep at the wheel when he took over as the Flying Eagles’ quarterback last year.

Not even in the quarterback picture, he was thrown into the position almost as an afterthought when coach John H. Lilly and assistant Tim Carrico saw him throwing in practice one day.

“It seemed like he could throw the ball 100 miles,” Lilly said. “So we started working with him at the quarterback a little. He started the season as the No. 3 quarterback.”

That didn’t last long.

When starter J.C. Pennington got hurt (and eventually transferred to Princeton), Johnson was inserted into the lineup against Parkersburg.

He ended up starting the final six games and went 4-2 as a starter.

Not bad for a guy who hadn’t played QB since he was in fourth grade — and then all he did was hand the ball off.

“Really, it’s amazing,” Lilly said. “The kid hadn’t thought about taking a snap, he gets the job and we took off. That’s a pretty amazing thing.”

And he showed that he might have reached a comfort zone in the final week of the season when he rushed for 206 yards and a score and completed 5 of 7 passing for 104 yards and two scores in a win over Princeton.

All told, Johnson was 36 of 67 passing for 627 yards and six touchdowns, and he added 564 yards on the ground with five scores in those six starts. He finished with 752 yards passing and seven touchdowns and 599 yards rushing.

Johnson, who serves as the team’s kicker, finished second on the team in scoring.

He rushed for over 100 twice and threw for over 100 in four of those games.

“I wasn’t surprised that I played quarterback,” Johnson said. “Really, it’s always the position I wanted to play. I just needed the chance. When J.C. got hurt, I wasn’t thinking about taking the job. I was trying to get wins for the team.”

It’s that attitude, Lilly said, which will serve him well.

“He’s a leader,” Lilly said. “We’ve been doing this high-endurance training with the Marines (during a three-week SSAC-sanctioned practice period), and it’s tough. You run an 800-yard dash, then you do crickets (moving pushups for 10 yards) and then run a 400, do crickets and then run a 100 and do crickets. He’s always the first one done. Then he is going back and helping linemen finish.”

That is just Johnson being himself, he said.

“I like to help people out,” he said. “It’s part of the job. I guess you can say it’s being a leader. I just want us to win games, and I want to help our team any way I can. My first goal is to win that first game. After that, I have a long-term goal of making the playoffs.”

And maybe, somewhere along the way, he’ll take a break.

— E-mail: demorrison@register-herald.com