Chris Johnson Must Land with Denver Broncos to Revitalize Career

March 22, 2014   ·   Chris Roling   ·   Jump to comments

Now four seasons removed from his historic 2,006 rushing yards that earned him the CJ2K moniker, Chris Johnson must hop on the first flight to Denver if he is to turn his diminishing career around as he heads into his aged-29 season.
It doesn't matter whether that means swallowing his pride and taking a pay cut in order to facilitate a trade or simply dragging his feet until the Tennessee Titans set him free—he just needs to make it happen.
The globe was first alerted to the fact the Titans would like to part ways with Johnson recently thanks to Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean, before Fox Sports revealed the maligned running back was willing to take a pay cut to make ends meet:
The response has been underwhelming.
NFL front offices aren't stupid. Johnson has a base salary of $8 million in each of the next two seasons before the number dips to $7 million in 2016, per Spotrac. Now pair those numbers with the league's shift to a committee approach and Johnson's outpu...

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