{"id":69953,"date":"2025-08-09T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:09:20","slug":"report-c-j-gardner-johnson-could-return-in-time-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69953\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: C.J. Gardner-Johnson could return in time for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.J. Gardner-Johnson has gone from fearing a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament tear to possibly playing in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans safety injured his knee Thursday, and it initially appeared a serious injury. An MRI later showed his ACL intact, however.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that further testing indicates \u201cit\u2019s not out of the question that he could be back as soon as the regular-season opener.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Texans play the Rams on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson, who won a Super Bowl with the Eagles in February, was traded to the Texans in the offseason to upgrade their secondary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C.J. Gardner-Johnson has gone from fearing a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament tear to possibly playing in the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-69953","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\/69953","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=69953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}