C.J. Gardner-Johnson has only been in the NFL for five seasons, and in that time, he’s already had two different stints with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles clearly like him, and apparently, they were thinking about drafting him in 2019, but everything fell apart because Gardner-Johnson didn’t have his priorities straight while making a pre-draft visit with the team back in 2019.
Five years ago, Gardner-Johnson was viewed as a prospect who was likely going to go off the board by the end of Day 2. However, he said he ended up falling in the draft because he didn’t interview too well with the teams that he talked to.
“I dropped from the first to the fourth after my interviews,” Gardner-Johnson said this week, via the Philly Voice.
One of those pre-draft interviews came with the Eagles, and at the time, it seemed Philadelphia was interested in drafting him, but the Eagles ended up taking him off their draft board for a pretty hilarious reason: They didn’t like that Gardner-Johnson was out hitting on women during his visit.
“The Eagles didn’t draft me because I was trying to holler at a chick at Chickie’s and Pete’s,” Gardner-Johnson said. “That got back to Howie, and then my agent asked…
