{"id":801299,"date":"2026-08-03T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801299\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:44:08","slug":"joe-brady-were-fortunate-c-j-gardner-johnson-avoided-a-major-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801299\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brady: We’re fortunate C.J. Gardner-Johnson avoided a major injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bills safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson gave the team a scare when he went down in practice on Saturday, but there was relief in the organization when his leg injury was evaluated. <\/p>\n

Gardner-Johnson was diagnosed with a calf strain<\/a> and head coach Joe Brady said on Monday that the team was happy to get a favorable outcome given the way things looked when the veteran was initially injured. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate<\/a>,\u201d Brady said, via Matt Parrino of Syracuse.com. \u201cAny time you see a lower body extremity injury in the manner in which some of those happen, there\u2019s always a bad possibility with it. We got good news. We\u2019ll see how his body recovers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brady said he would not put a timetable on when Gardner-Johnson will be back on the field because that recovery process differs from case to case, but the Bills should get him back in the relatively near future and that\u2019s a win for the back end of their defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bills safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson gave the team a scare when he went down in practice on Saturday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-801299","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\/801299","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=801299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}