{"id":145458,"date":"2025-09-15T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145458\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:34:07","slug":"sources-pro-bowl-bears-cb-jaylon-johnson-groin-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145458\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8211; Pro Bowl Bears CB Jaylon Johnson (groin) out indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Cronin<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757957647_434_cronin_courtney.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtney Cronin<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Staff WriterCourtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.Sep 16, 2025, 03:17 AM<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bears<\/a> Pro Bowl cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"5a41d261-8616-165f-c459-137b6b1681f1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4243253\/jaylon-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylon Johnson<\/a> is out indefinitely with a groin injury, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 26, exited the second quarter of the Bears&#8217; 52-21 loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56caffee-178d-f6f2-a076-b277486b8c32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> on Sunday and did not return. He made a diving pass break up and laid on his stomach while receiving medical attention from trainers before walking to Chicago&#8217;s sideline.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief visit to the injury tent, Johnson went back to the Bears&#8217; locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>The cornerback initially sustained a groin injury while training during the offseason and later told &#8220;The Pivot&#8221; podcast that he tore his adductor off his pelvic bone. He was placed on the non-football injury list in late July and missed all of training camp, the preseason and Chicago&#8217;s season opener against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db556c9-ed76-a7a5-4ccb-a92fc6db4334\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bears coach Ben Johnson said Sunday that he believed Jaylon Johnson and linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"5f41d27a-93c2-2c3a-c905-ea03d402e603\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3121544\/tj-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. Edwards<\/a>, who also exited the loss early with a hamstring injury, had &#8220;re-aggravated&#8221; the injuries that sidelined both players for Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN that the Bears are still evaluating the full extent of Johnson&#8217;s injury and whether he will need surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 52 points given up by Chicago&#8217;s defense were its most allowed since the 2014 season. The Lions averaged 8.8 yards per play in the Bears&#8217; second loss of the season, which was their highest rate allowed in a game since 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney Cronin Close Courtney Cronin ESPN Staff WriterCourtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-145458","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\/145458","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=145458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}