{"id":36431,"date":"2025-05-09T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/36431\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:03:09","slug":"rookie-cb-will-johnson-on-cardinals-defense-its-a-cornerbacks-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/36431\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie CB Will Johnson on Cardinals defense: &#8216;It&#8217;s a cornerback&#8217;s dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/will-johnson\/32004a4f-4875-1013-48cf-31d3acf04800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Johnson<\/a> might have fallen in the draft, but at least he landed in a scheme he believes will fit him like a glove.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Super exciting. I mean, that scheme is amazing,&#8221; the Arizona Cardinals rookie <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/video\/will-johnson-speaks-with-the-media-about-playing-for-gannon-and-rallis-his-relationship-with-walter-nolen-iii-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Thursday<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a cornerback&#8217;s dream. So, I&#8217;m excited to play in it. I&#8217;m excited to get comfortable with it. And just learn more about it. I&#8217;ve learned a good amount so far, so just continue to learn and get comfortable in it, and make a lot of plays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the Cardinals <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-offseason-workout-dates-all-32-teams-2025-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening<\/a> rookie minicamp on Friday, Johnson will have his first chance to really dive into the scheme of coach Jonathan Gannon and defensive coordinator Nick Rallis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Johnson might have fallen in the draft, but at least he landed in a scheme he believes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1227,1327,7,88,6,609,4267,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-36431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-around-the-nfl","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-no-minute","17":"tag-offseason-news","18":"tag-will-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114478016410627761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36431","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=36431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}