Eagles

CJ Gardner-Johnson Carted Off Field, Injury Expected Not to be Serious

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Jul 24th, 2023 · 2:08 PM EDT

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Wanted to wait for an update on CJGJ before writing some generic post about his injury and speculating.  The haters are furious I’m using some sort of journalistic integrity.

Well we’ve got one and good news it looks like CJ’s injury wasn’t serious and an MRI revealed no structural damage to his knee:

The MRI on Lions S C.J. Gardner-Johnson revealed no structural damage to his knee and he is considered day-to-day at this time, I’m told.

Great news for a huge part of Detroit’s reshaped secondary after Gardner-Johnson left practice earlier today.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) July 24, 2023

Here’s his Instagram story he posted an hour ago:

Not many non-contact knee injuries that require a cart typically turn out a positive diagnosis. You could see that his own teammates past and present were worried:

OL Taylor Decker asked for POV on seeing DB CJ Gardner-Johnson go down at practice. Handful of players came to check on CJGJ before he was carted away. #Lions pic.twitter.com/F6brs7SQtM

— Dannie (@dannierogers___) July 24, 2023

Praying for ya big Dawg!!! @CGJXXIII

— Darius Slay (@bigplay24slay) July 24, 2023

I know some Eagles fans might be praying on his demise because of what he said about people in Philly last week. Remember though, he wasn’t asked about Eagles fans. Just people from Philly. A city where he had his car stolen in, which makes him more like us than it doesn’t.