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DJ Bien-AimeSep 2, 2025, 05:15 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets for the New York Daily News. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show “Talkin’ Texans.”<\/p>\n HOUSTON — Coach DeMeco Ryans said Monday that he expects safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson<\/a> to be “ready for Week 1,” as the Houston Texans<\/a> prepare to kick off the 2025 season against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gardner-Johnson has been sidelined since Aug. 7 with a knee injury that he suffered during a Texans scrimmage at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. The injury appeared to be serious after he attempted to tackle former Texans wideout John Metchie III<\/a> before falling to the ground. He couldn’t move his lower right leg and then needed assistance to get on a medical cart.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks But Gardner-Johnson didn’t suffer any structural damage to the ACL and was sidelined for almost a month. Now he’s expected to practice this week and be a starter in the Texans secondary alongside safety Calen Bullock<\/a>.<\/p>\n Houston acquired Gardner-Johnson in March in exchange for left guard Kenyon Green<\/a>, who was the Texans’ 2022 first-round pick. Gardner-Johnson is expected to elevate a ball-hawking secondary that had the second-most interceptions last season (19), led by All-Pro cornerback Derek Stingley Jr<\/a>., cornerback Kamari Lassiter<\/a> and nickel Jalen Pitre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeSep 2, 2025, 05:15 AM CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-111586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nfl_preview_1x1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\"){kind=spacer}
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