{"id":273824,"date":"2025-08-09T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/273824\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:20:17","slug":"what-we-know-about-texans-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/273824\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Texans&#8217; safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/85531183007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CJ Stroud calls NFL\u2019s chain culture a waste of money<\/p>\n<p>CJ Stroud, quarterback for the Houston Texans, has voiced his opinion on the NFL&#8217;s chain culture, calling it a waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>Sportskeeda &#8211; US Sports<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Houston Texans<\/a> made a key move to upgrade their secondary this offseason by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2025\/03\/11\/eagles-trade-c-j-gardner-johnson-texans\/82266357007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">trading<\/a> offensive lineman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/kenyon-green\/1180305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kenyon Green<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> for safety\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/cj-gardnerjohnson\/910391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">C.J. Gardner-Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They had a scare this week with their addition to the safety room.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson went down with what appeared to be a serious leg injury during practice. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texans<\/a> coach DeMeco Ryans called it &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; to him go down like that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m always nervous as a head coach anytime I see anybody hit the ground,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamJWexler\/status\/1953488530442781162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ryans said after practice<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll evaluate CJ, see where he is but no update at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We now have an update. Gardner-Johnson&#8217;s injury isn&#8217;t as severe as initially thought, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1953939525023281449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter<\/a>, and the veteran safety could be available as early as the Texans&#8217; Week 1 game against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Further testing revealed that Texans safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson\u2019s knee injury isn\u2019t as serious as it could have been, and it\u2019s not out of the question that he could be back as soon as the regular-season opener vs. the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1953939525023281449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the hours following the injury, some feared Gardner-Johnson had torn something in his leg. Early testing after practice showed he did not tear his ACL, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1953613157190300097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a>, but more testing revealed he could be back on the field in time for regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson is the lone new starter in the Texans&#8217; secondary for the 2025 NFL season. He adds experience to one of the youngest secondaries in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Texans S depth chart<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson is slated to start this year alongside second-year safety <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/calen-bullock\/1286268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Calen Bullock<\/a>. There&#8217;s a mix of veterans and young players behind them.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CJ Stroud calls NFL\u2019s chain culture a waste of money CJ Stroud, quarterback for the Houston Texans, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[247,265,1432,1172,7,9518,221,253,2368,20842,2448,677,679,248,267,88,6,35196,907,9,266,678,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-273824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-c","11":"tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gardner-johnson","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-texans","16":"tag-houstontexans","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-j","19":"tag-modular","20":"tag-modular-story","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-hub","26":"tag-now","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-news","29":"tag-story","30":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114997836525313074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273824","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=273824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}