It’s been 15 days since Johnson went down in a sickening heap during the first 9-on-7 contact of the season. Although there has been no official announcement by the Bengals, it is widely believed he suffered mild medial collateral ligament sprain in his knee. What we do know, but didn’t know in that awful first hour, is that it wasn’t the dreaded season-ending anterior cruciate ligament tear.
“I prayed before they moved me,” Johnson recalled before Monday’s practice. “Whatever was wrong with it, it was going to be less wrong. When I prayed, whatever it was initially it was going to be less than what it could have been.