Cornerback · Buffalo Bills

C.J. Gardner-Johnson

No. 22 · 8th season

The MRI came back, and the Bills got good news

Training camp is where scares live. A player goes down, everyone holds their breath, and the next 24 hours feel longer than they should.

C.J. Gardner-Johnson is the kind of presence a team notices right away when he's not on the field. The Buffalo Bills safety went down on day three of camp, and the waiting-for-results part of the day began.

The MRI landed where everyone was hoping. A calf strain — real enough to flag, not serious enough to spiral. Gardner-Johnson is not in danger of missing significant time.

For a defense building toward something, keeping its pieces intact through camp matters more than most fans see. Losing a starter before the season even begins is a different kind of loss — quiet, accumulative, hard to course-correct.

For now, Gardner-Johnson is day-to-day instead of week-to-week. That is not a small thing.

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