{"id":797653,"date":"2026-08-01T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797653\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:57:08","slug":"c-j-gardner-johnson-leaves-practice-on-cart-with-lower-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797653\/","title":{"rendered":"C.J. Gardner-Johnson leaves practice on cart with lower leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills added veteran safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the defense in an effort to give it a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/c-j-gardner-johnson-blames-his-release-in-houston-on-confrontation-with-gms-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">little more fight and bite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The injury bug may have bitten Gardner-Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Via multiple reports, Gardner-Johnson left Saturday morning\u2019s practice on a cart, after suffering a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>He had impressed in the early practices of training camp. <\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick of the Saints in 2019, Gardner-Johnson has also played for the Eagles (twice), the Lions, the Texans, and the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson is projected to be the starting strong safety in Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills added veteran safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the defense in an effort to give it a little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-797653","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\/797653","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=797653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}