Bruce Johnson suffers ruptured Achilles, Done For Year

The Giants suffered their first serious injury of training camp on Thursday evening, when cornerback Bruce Johnson injured his leg early in practice and had to be carted off the field.

Later on in practice, the Giants announced that Johnson suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon. He will undoubtedly be lost for the season.

Johnson was entering his third season with the Giants. An undrafted free agent out of Miami, Johnson appeared in all 16 of the Giants' games as a rookie in 2009, starting in five of them. He had two interceptions that season, including one thrown by the Cowboys' Tony Romo that he returned for a touchdown.

Last season he played in six games before being lost for the rest of the season due to a knee injury.

Losing Johnson ratchets up the pressure even more on the Giants to come to an agreement with first-round draft pick Prince Amukamara, the highly touted cornerback out of Nebraska. Amukamara is the only first-round pick that remains unsigned at this point in the NFL.


(espn.com)