Cornerback · Buffalo Bills

C.J. Gardner-Johnson

No. 22 · 8th season

Gardner-Johnson knows what people say about him — and he's not running from it

There's a version of C.J. Gardner-Johnson that exists in every opposing locker room: loud, in your face, the guy you hate until he's on your side. That reputation follows him like a second shadow.

He has played for multiple teams, and wherever he goes, two things tend to arrive with him — a gift for forcing turnovers and a personality that not everyone warms to. Whether that combination is a problem or a feature depends on who you ask.

Now with the Buffalo Bills, Gardner-Johnson says he has something to settle. The label 'cancer in the locker room' is out there, and he knows it. He is not pretending otherwise. What he wants is the chance to make it ring false.

That kind of self-awareness is its own kind of statement. The chip is real. The question Buffalo is betting on is whether he can channel it — and whether the edge that makes him a headache to play against also makes him exactly what they need.

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