Since arriving in Buffalo as a fourth-round pick in 2018, Johnson has played a plug-and-play role for the Bills. In 2023, Johnson had a career year by playing in all 17 regular season games for Sean McDermott’s defense to help Buffalo to an 11-6 record and won the AFC East.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Johnson played 11 games (eight started) and recorded 57 tackles, one tackle for loss and four passes defended. Johnson’s season earned him a 60.5 overall grade from Pro Football Focus, which ranked 66th out of 114 qualified cornerbacks.<\/p>\n
After trading<\/a> away pass rusher Maxx Crosby<\/a> to Baltimore, the Raiders are addressing needs to a defensive unit that struggled mightily last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since arriving in Buffalo as a fourth-round pick in 2018, Johnson has played a plug-and-play role for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,1807,1812,3,349,6257,215714,99,147443],"class_list":["post-512494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports","tag-taron-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512494","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=512494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}