Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson didn\u2019t practice during training camp and didn\u2019t play in the preseason, leading to speculation that he might be unhappy with his contract. But Johnson says his absence was entirely the result of a groin injury.<\/p>\n
Although Johnson said in an offseason interview that he might need to talk to the Bears about where he deserves to rank among the highest-paid cornerbacks in the NFL, he told reporters on Tuesday that his contract has nothing to do with why he didn\u2019t practice in camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know me better than that,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI never held out. I\u2019ve never done any of that stuff. For the media, it\u2019s a good play as far as the contract and the timing and things, but I\u2019m not that type of cat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson said he suffered the painful groin injury during a routine offseason workout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a groin injury over the offseason,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt was a freak accident as far as the injury, same movement I\u2019ve made plenty of times, and had a bad injury in my groin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson said he is optimistic he can play in the Bears\u2019 regular-season opener on Monday night against the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson didn\u2019t practice during training camp and didn\u2019t play in the preseason, leading to speculation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-129684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}