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[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@THEGOATtwo09 No. He might worth one late pick. His lack of effort alone is concerning.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Chris Johnson cannot speak anymore.

He cannot walk on his own either. He talks through a device he controls with his eyes.

His day starts with two hours of stretching. Seven bottles of medication. Physical therapy four or five times a week. A machine that bypasses his lungs and pumps every four seconds, all day, all night.

His wife Brittany does almost all of it herself.

"The hardest part is watching little pieces of him be torn away."

He is 40 years old. In 2009 he ran for 2,006 yards, the sixth man in NFL history to do it.

ALS was diagnosed in May 2025. He kept it private for more than a year.

Then last Fourth of July weekend, about a week after he finally said it out loud on Good Morning America, he did something nobody expected a man in his condition to do.

He started a challenge.

He called it the CJ2K Ice Bucket Challenge, dumped the water on himself, and called out his old teammates.

LenDale White went first. Then Pacman Jones. Then Marshawn Lynch.

Then it got away from him in the best possible way.

Vince Young. Adrian Peterson. Deion Sanders. Emmitt Smith. Thurman Thomas. LeSean McCoy. Pat McAfee. The entire Football Night in America crew did it live on NBC.

Mike Tomlin wore a shirt for him on air during his broadcasting debut at the Hall of Fame Game.

And his daughter challenged LeBron James.

A man who can only move his eyes got the NFL to stand in a parking lot and pour ice water over its own head, and most of the people doing it had never played a down with him.

Here is the part he will not soften.

"Almost every neurologist brought up my football career."

He has read the research showing former NFL players are roughly four times more likely to develop and die from ALS than other men. He knows what that probably means about where this came from.

He has never once said he regrets playing.

This month the Titans put him in their Ring of Honor. He was there with his family. He has 11,906 yards from scrimmage and he is not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He has twin 14 year old sons, an 8 year old daughter named Honey, and a stepson, Lee, who is a junior at Florida A&M.

He used to coach their teams. He used to take them on five mile walks.

Lee said the thing that will stay with you.

"Nothing has changed from what he tries to do. It's just physical."

The man is still in there. The body quit on him.

Asked what he wants now, Johnson typed it out with his eyes.

"I just want more time with the people I love."

If you want to do something, the ice bucket challenge is still running, and it goes to ALS research.

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[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@REMASCULATE I am thankful I have a wife that is my biggest fan and I am hers. Good for the both of them. I don’t listen to her music and I can’t stand him as a player being a Raider fan but I hope the best for them

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@PaulPabst Hoping for the best

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@ShashiJairam Hoping for the best

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@LibOrNormal @CherokeeOwl Pedo Pascal and Wilma Smith need to leave the room

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

The Madden trailer is here, and this movie already looks awesome

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@THEGOATtwo09 I wonder how many people he’s talked shit to on DMs lol.

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@LauraLoomer All bullshit!! All talk

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@BWilliamsonNFL For clicks

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@MLFootball @derekcarrqb @KennyKing_Jr @RaidersBeat @RaiderHoncho @RaiderHours @TheRealCruzOx @BarstoolNOLA Nope

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Fernando Mendoza signed a rookie contract in July worth $57.27 million. Fully guaranteed. He is 22 years old.

This week he announced what he is doing with his rookie season.

He is starting a series called Finance with Fernando to teach people his age how to handle money.

His words in the trailer.

"My true passion is fiscal responsibility."

He is not bluffing. He graduated from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, and he is finishing a master's in business administration in December.

Here is how he got to the point where a 22 year old can say that.

All four of his grandparents left Cuba for Miami in 1960.

He grew up in Miami and played at Christopher Columbus High School. In two seasons as the starting quarterback he threw for 1,396 yards and 16 touchdowns. Total. Nobody was building a recruiting class around that.

He committed to Yale.

Then another recruit's decision opened a door at California, and he went to Berkeley instead. He redshirted in 2022. He started eight games in 2023 and eleven in 2024.

Then he hit the portal and went to Indiana, a program that had gone 9-27 in the three years before Curt Cignetti showed up.

What happened next does not really happen.

Indiana went 16-0. Mendoza threw 41 touchdown passes, a school record. They won at Oregon. They beat No. 1 Ohio State for the Big Ten title.

Rose Bowl against Alabama, he went 14 of 16 for 192 yards and three touchdowns in a 38-3 win. Peach Bowl against Oregon, five touchdowns.

Then the national championship game, against Miami. The school in his own hometown.

Indiana won 27-21. He was the offensive MVP.

First Heisman Trophy in Indiana history. First national championship in Indiana history.

Then the Raiders took him first overall. He wears number 15 for Tom Flores, who gave him his blessing to use it.

And right now he is sitting behind Kirk Cousins.

So instead of waiting around, he is finishing the MBA and starting a personal finance series for people who have never had money and are about to.

One more thing worth knowing about him. His mother Elsa lives with multiple sclerosis. He and his brother worked with restaurants to put items on the menu that raise money for MS research.

Turn on any sports broadcast in America right now and count the sportsbook ads.

The number one pick in the draft started a show about not losing your money.

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@kumite_ray 😂😂

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@RaiderDhillon1 Exactly. Thank you. No one faults him for leaving it’s the continued talking about the Raiders after he left.

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@LangmanVince So opposed

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@VinnyBonsignore Agree to disagree. I enjoy your comments. Thank you

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@chaines24 @VinnyBonsignore It’s not that, I totally get it but he kept running his mouth about how terrible the team and organization and everything. All true but you’re gone now. Go play and be happy. Two years later he was still talking shit with Kay Adams

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

I don’t. I get he wasn’t happy and wanted to leave. Totally understandable. He tried and did the best he could. My issue was him repeatedly talk shit on the Raiders even after he was gone. Continually going on with Kay Adams and running his mouth. So now when he says he didn’t have a problem, he’s fake as hell. Not a fan at all.

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@AdamVingan You should. Try and see what you think

[JJGomez @JJGomez722]

@StacieGerbyo Please do