There aren’t many better showmen in the NFL right now than defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
Unfortunately for the Detroit Lions, he hasn’t been on the field much during the 2023 season. But Gardner-Johnson appeared to hint on X (formerly Twitter) in his typical brash fashion about his return.
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“Time is ticking,” Gardner-Johnson wrote with a purple devil smile emoji.9
The social media post has received more than 300,000 views and 150 comments.
Detroit sports video editor and hype man Carl Collins inferred what a lot of Lions fans seemed to with the tweet — that the defensive back is planning to return to the field soon.
“This welcome back video is gonna be gonna be,” Collins wrote in a tweet along with emojis of fire and eyeballs.
Gardner-Johnson has missed the past seven games. He suffered a torn pectoral during Week 2 against the Seattle Seahawks.
The veteran defensive back landed on injured reserve following his Week 2 injury. But that didn’t discourage the 25-year-old from continuing to be vocal on social media.
“I’ll be back,” he posted as a caption to a video on Instagram.
“This (stuff) makes me tear up, for real,” Gardner-Johnson said in the Instagram video. “I don’t want to cry no more. I just want to get to it. You feel me? Look at this, I’m out there playing with one arm. They can’t stop me with this (stuff). When we (talking about) tapped out, I ain’t tapped out yet. I ain’t tap out yet, bro.”