It’s been a little while since we heard anything from Lions defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson. The talented, versatile DB suffered a serious injury in the team’s Week 2 loss to the Seattle Seahawks and has been on injured reserve.
It turns out Gardner-Johnson might be a thing of the past. Well, his name, anyway.
According to the player himself, he has formally filed to change his name to Ceedy Duce. He’s gone by that moniker for some time and often refers to himself in the third person as Ceedy Duce too.
From Gardner-Johnson, err, Duce’s Instagram story on Friday afternoon:
It’s not the first name change for the Lions defender. In college at Florida, he was initially known by his birth name, Chauncey Gardner. He added the hyphenation to honor his stepfather and morphed to C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
This also isn’t the first time he’s efforted the name change to Ceedy Duce. According to Saturdays Down South, he did this very same thing while playing for the New Orleans Saints.
Once the paperwork officially hits, we’ll change his name here, too.