CJ Gardner-Johnson did not think he would be traded from Eagles for this reason

CJ Gardner-Johnson Almost thought it was when he found out that the Philadelphia Eagles traded him to Houston Texans.

After NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Eagles had Sent the 27-year-old Super Bowl winner For Texas Tuesday, March 11, Gardner-Johnson took to social media to address his new chapter.

On one Livestream was loaded up to xGardner-Johnson admitted, “I won’t lie, I thought it was April Fool’s,” and said he thought “they got me”, like a prank.

But when he realized that trade was no joke, Gardner-Johnson said there was “no bad blood” with the organization-An interesting choice of words for the NFL player who carried a controversial sweater with one Taylor Swift reference after making vulgar comments about his boyfriend Travis KelceLove Life.

“There was no love lost, there was no bad blood … The young guys just had to get paid down there,” Gardner-Johnson explained during the live stream.

Gardner-Johnson said that all he asked for the Eagles was that they trade him somewhere he “can go and play winning football” and he did not ask for a “specific” team. “I didn’t ask for a specific place … I want to play winning football. I woke up the next day and and boom there is, we in Houston.”

In fact, Gardner-Johnson said that the phone call “was fantastic” and that he understands that the team had to buy him. “The situation is that the young guys just have to get paid in Philly,” he continued, naming several former teammates who are still with the Eagles.

“I’m getting older, I understand. There was no bad blood,” he said.

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After Gardner-Johnson’s trade was announced, fans reacted by Swift on social media. “Eagles probably traded CJ Gardner-Johnson partly because of the Taylor Swift thing. Let’s not lie here,” a user wrote After the trade was announced.

Another mentioned“Taylor Swift somehow worked his magic to get CJ Gardner-Johnson translated from Philly after that parade sweater.”

Gardner-Johnson — As once played with Jason Kelce on eagles – caused controversy at the team Super Bowl Parade on Friday, February 14 when he carried one sweater It reads: “Swifties can lix my balls.”

It came just a few days after Gardner-Johnson published a photo of himself that matched Kelce, 35, on the field to his Instagram stories on February 10, one day after Eagles defeated Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl.

Gardner-Johnson mocked Kelce in the post, and he suggested if he had stayed with his ex-girlfriend Kayla Nicole instead of meeting Swift, he and Chiefs would have won the match.