{"id":482757,"date":"2024-05-06T00:14:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482757"},"modified":"2024-05-06T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T04:14:37","slug":"former-browns-texans-running-back-johnson-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/former-browns-texans-running-back-johnson-retires-from-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Browns, Texans running back Johnson retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RB Duke Johnson shared his retirement today after competing in 8 campaigns in the National Football League.<\/p>\n<p>Picked in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round by the Cleveland Browns in 2015 out of the University of Miami, where Johnson became the school&#8217;s all-time leading rusher, he played for 4 organizations in the league. Duke last appeared in the NFL in 2022, when he played a match for the Bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: Free agent RB Duke Johnson Jr announces his retirement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He played 8 seasons primarily with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Browns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Browns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0qBQysU1oV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0qBQysU1oV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Fantasy Source (@FantasySource_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FantasySource_\/status\/1787205768636223628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;8 Years 4 franchises with 1 goal in mind, create a better life for my family,&#8221; Johnson shared on social media. &#8220;I never imagined being the all-time leading rusher of my favorite school or being part of the list of all-time footballers that played in the National Football League out of the place where I have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duke finishes his career with 5,135 total yards and 23 TDs for Cleveland, Houston, Miami, and Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RB Duke Johnson shared his retirement today after competing in 8 campaigns in the National Football League. Picked in the 3rd round by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482758,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16975,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17995,22905,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-Cleveland and Houston RB retires from the league.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482772,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482757\/revisions\/482772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482757"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482757"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}