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C.J. Gardner-Johnson

SAF (DB) · 5′11″ 208 lb · Born 1997-12-20 · College: Florida · Played 2019–2026 · Drafted 2019 round 4, pick 105 by New Orleans Saints ·

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ESPN=4034953, NFLVERSE=00-0035253, NFLVERSE=GAR211068, OTC=7896, PFR=GardCh00

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Defense

Year	Team	Pos	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int	PD	FF	TD
2019	NOR	SAF	16		0	1	8	1	0
2020	NOR	SAF	15		1	1	13	0	0
2021	NOR	SAF	12		2	3	7	0	0
2022	PHI	SAF	12		1	6	8	0	0
2023	DET	SAF	3		0	1	3	0	0
2024	PHI	SAF	16		0	6	12	1	1
2025	CHI	SAF	13		3	2	4	1	0
Total			87	0	7	20	55	3	1

Teams

Year	Team	Pos	#
2019	New Orleans Saints	DB	22
2020	New Orleans Saints	DB	22
2021	New Orleans Saints	DB	22
2022	Philadelphia Eagles	DB	23
2023	Detroit Lions	DB	2
2024	Philadelphia Eagles	DB	8
2025	Chicago Bears	DB	35
2026	Buffalo Bills	DB	22

Advanced stats

Coverage & pass rush

Year	Team	Pos	G	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	Yds	Y/Tgt	TD	Rat	ADOT	Blitz	Hurry	QBKD	Sk	Prs	Tkl	MTkl	MTkl%
2019	NOR	DB	16	51	36	70.6%	340	6.7	2	93.6	6.4	30	3	4	0.0	7	49	4	7.5%
2020	NOR	DB	15	94	54	57.4%	442	4.7	2	72.2	7.0	31	2	3	1.0	6	66	11	14.3%
2021	NOR	RLB	12	61	39	63.9%	400	6.6	1	67.7	8.4	22	1	2	2.0	5	46	9	16.4%
2022	PHI	S	12	52	38	73.1%	446	8.6	3	78.4	11.0	10	1	1	1.0	3	67	11	14.1%
2023	DET	DB	3	8	5	62.5%	81	10.1	0	56.8	15.0	5	2	0	0.0	2	17	2	10.5%
2024	PHI	SS	16	37	23	62.2%	312	8.4	8	89.0	8.4	1	1	1	0.0	2	59	6	9.2%
2025	2TM	S	13	66	44	66.7%	469	7.1	3	89.8	7.2	35	0	3	3.0	6	66	10	13.2%
2025	HST	S	3	12	8	66.7%	99	8.3	0	92.0	9.3	5	0	1	0.0	1	15	2	11.8%
2025	CHI	S	10	54	36	66.7%	370	6.9	3	89.3	6.7	30	0	2	3.0	5	51	8	13.6%

Pro Football Reference advanced statistics (2018 on), via nflverse.

Snap counts

Year	Team	G	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2019	NOR	16	0%	546	53%	205	44%
2019	NOR	1	0%	50	64%	6	19%
2020	NOR	1	0%	51	73%	8	30%
2020	NOR	15	0%	861	88%	147	35%
2020	NOR	1	0%	48	98%	10	42%
2021	NOR	12	0%	626	81%	76	24%
2022	PHI	1	0%	42	91%	0	0%
2022	PHI	1	0%	47	90%	0	0%
2022	PHI	12	0%	729	91%	1	0%
2022	PHI	1	0%	55	100%	0	0%
2023	DET	1	0%	33	50%	0	0%
2023	DET	1	0%	34	53%	1	3%
2023	DET	3	0%	187	89%	1	1%
2023	DET	1	0%	38	66%	1	4%
2024	PHI	1	0%	75	95%	0	0%
2024	PHI	1	0%	71	100%	0	0%
2024	PHI	16	0%	908	92%	1	0%
2024	PHI	1	0%	52	93%	0	0%
2024	PHI	1	0%	65	98%	0	0%
2025	CHI	1	0%	47	60%	0	0%
2025	CHI	10	0%	565	88%	10	4%
2025	HST	3	0%	202	96%	0	0%
2026	BUF	1	0%	79	100%	0	0%

Games with a snap count on file (2012 on); percentages are the average share per game.

Depth chart history

Year	Team	Listed at	Weeks as starter	Weeks listed
2019	NOR	SS	0	18
2020	NOR	SS	1	17
2021	NOR	SS, RCB	0	15
2022	PHI	S	13	13
2023	DET	S	3	3
2024	PHI	S	19	19

Regular-season depth charts (2001 on). A starter is a first-string listing that week.

Contracts

Signed	Team	Yrs	Value	Per year	Guaranteed	Cap%
2019	New Orleans Saints	4	$3.3M	$826,775	$787,100	0.4%	current

Career contract value $3.3M (Over The Cap, via nflverse). Cap% is the average per year against that season's salary cap.

Combine

Year	Pos	School	Ht	Wt	40	Bench	Vert	Broad	3-cone	Shuttle
2019	S	Florida	5′11″	210	4.48	17	36.0	117	7.03	4.20

All of the 2019 combine →

Traded

Date	From	To
2019-04-27	New York Jets	New Orleans Saints	details
2022-08-30	New Orleans Saints	Philadelphia Eagles	details
2025-03-11	Philadelphia Eagles	Houston Texans	details

Injury reports (16)

Year	Wk	Team	Injury	Game status	Practice
2019	16	NOR	Concussion	Questionable	Full Participation in Practice
2019	17	NOR	Forearm		Full Participation in Practice
2021	2	NOR	Knee	Questionable	Did Not Participate In Practice
2021	3	NOR	Knee		Full Participation in Practice
2021	10	NOR	Foot	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2021	15	NOR	Toe		Full Participation in Practice
2022	13	PHI	kidney	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2023	16	DET	Pectoral	Out	Limited Participation in Practice
2023	17	DET	Pectoral	Out	Limited Participation in Practice
2023	18	DET	Pectoral	Questionable	Full Participation in Practice
2024	3	PHI	Foot	Questionable	Did Not Participate In Practice
2024	15	PHI	Not injury related - resting player		Full Participation in Practice
2024	18	PHI	Not injury related - resting player		Limited Participation in Practice
2025	17	CHI	Knee	Questionable	Full Participation in Practice
2025	19 (WC)	CHI	Concussion	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2025	20 (DIV)	CHI	Concussion		Full Participation in Practice

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