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Calvin Johnson and Marshawn Lynch left college a decade ago and went 10 picks apart in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft.

They worked out together as they prepared for the NFL combine, and they walked away from the game together months apart after the 2015 season.

But while Lynch reconsidered his retirement and eventually returned to football earlier this spring, Johnson, the Detroit Lions' all-time leading receiver, said Saturday that he's never once thought about joining his friend back on the field.

"I don’t really think about it too much because I got so much going on," Johnson told the Free Press after his annual "Catching Dreams" football camp Saturday at Southfield High.

"I came in with Marshawn. We worked out together down in Orlando with Tom Shaw. I'm going to see him next week because I’m going out there to work with Oakland. But I don’t feel any kind of mixed emotions about i