{"id":9190,"date":"2014-02-19T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2014-02-19T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:10:30","slug":"andre-johnson-feels-fine-wants-to-play-as-long-as-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/19\/andre-johnson-feels-fine-wants-to-play-as-long-as-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Johnson feels fine, wants to play &#8220;as long as I can&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9191\" alt=\"andrejohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/andrejohnson.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/andrejohnson.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/andrejohnson-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/andrejohnson-50x39.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson told the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/ultimatetexans\/2014\/02\/healthy-andre-johnson-on-johnny-manziel-michael-sam-texans\/\">Houston Chronicle<\/a> that he had recovered from a wrist injury that he suffered at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his 12th season, Johnson knows he&#8217;s not a young guy anyore but all he wants to do is play football. Johnson is coming off back to back 100 reception seasons. Last year he caught 109 balls for 1.407 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m not a second-, third-, or fourth-year guy. Everything comes to an end at some point,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cBut right now I don\u2019t know when it might end. I\u2019m feeling fine. I\u2019m feeling healthy. So I\u2019m going to continue to play as long as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As long as he can play Johnson intends to suit up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows that day when it\u2019s over. When that day comes, I\u2019ll have no problem stepping away. But right now I feel fine. I feel like I still have a few more years left in me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson told the Houston Chronicle that he had recovered from a wrist injury that he suffered at the end of last season. Entering his 12th season, Johnson knows he&#8217;s not a young guy anyore but all he wants to do is play football. Johnson is coming off back to back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[168,60],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andre-johnson","tag-houston-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}