Cornerback · Buffalo Bills

C.J. Gardner-Johnson

No. 22 · 8th season

Gardner-Johnson just paid off a Bills staffer's student loans

Nobody asked him to. That's the part worth sitting with.

C.J. Gardner-Johnson came to the Buffalo Bills this past offseason with a reputation built mostly on what he does between the lines — physical, loud, the kind of safety who makes receivers think twice. Off the field, he's been quieter. This is one of those moments that explains the room he walks into.

Gardner-Johnson paid $20,000 toward a Bills staffer's student loans. Not a teammate. A staffer. The people who are there before the players arrive and leave after they're gone.

That's the kind of gesture that doesn't need a press release. It found its way out anyway, and now here we are — which probably isn't what he was going for, but it's what happens when you do something like that.

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