When Jerry Jacobs saw C.J. Gardner-Johnson grab his right knee after he fell to the ground with a non-contact injury midway through the Detroit Lions' second practice of NFL training camp Monday, he bowed his head and said a prayer.
Jacobs tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in a game against the Denver Broncos in 2021, the second significant knee injury he suffered in his career, and the third-year Lions cornerback didn't want his new teammate to go through the same thing.
Gardner-Johnson was injured trying to weave his way through the line on a handoff to rookie Jahmyr Gibbs on the third play of the Lions' second team period Monday.