{"id":269626,"date":"2025-08-07T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269626\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:18:10","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-to-gruesome-texans-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269626\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts to gruesome Texans injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans are looking to make their first deep playoff run under young quarterback C.J. Stroud this season. Stroud has won a single playoff game in each of his first two seasons, but Houston is looking to take the next step and become a perennial Super Bowl contender.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, climbing that mountain may have just gotten a lot harder for the Texans. According to one insider, one star of the Texans\u2019 defense has gone down with an injury so brutal he couldn\u2019t even walk to the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexans DB CJ Gardner-Johnson was carted off the field this morning. The team fears he has torn his Achilles, which would sideline him for the remainder of the season,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSche1fer\/status\/1953471725049442757\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported ESPN\u2019s senior NFL insider Adam Schefter on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to the devastating news on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a top 3 group of starters on defense But depth at LB and the secondary are very suspect IMO, this injury is a huge blow,\u201d one fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate injuries and never root for them but this is what happens when 83 OVR madden rated players run their mouth,\u201d another person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDawg please dont do this to me, why does it always have to be my team bro,\u201d one Texans fan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the Texans replace Gardner-Johnson\u2019s production if he is indeed out for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans are looking to make their first deep playoff run under young quarterback C.J. Stroud this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[27141,7,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-269626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-cj-gardner-johnson","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114988863220303029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}