C.J. Gardner-Johnson Ejected From Bills Vs. Raiders

While the entire Buffalo Bills team was working hard to grab a key victory, the team's penalty monster reared its evil head once again during the team's desert matchup against the Raiders in Las Vegas.

The team had a total of 8 penalties in this week 6 battle that costed the Bills a total of 77-yard. But those penalties did more than cost yards; one big holding penalty took points off the scoreboard after it erased what would've been an 18-yard touchdown connection between Josh Allen and Dalton Kincaid.

While penalties continue to be an issue for the team, there was one penalty that rocked the team in a negative way.

Starting defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson got hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and then was ejected from the game after spitting at a couple of Raiders players.

Not only did that penalty cost the Bills 15 yards, but the team also lost one more player in a defensive secondary that is struggling to defend against the pass. According to NFL Stats, the team is ranked 31st against the pass and has given up the most passing yards this season.

With Gardner-Johnson's ejection, he joins a very short, yet infamous list of Bills who have been kicked out of a game over the last few years.

Over the last 10 years, there have been 4 Bills who have been ejected from a game, all of whom were on the defense:

In 2018, Buffalo's Shaq Lawson got into a fight with Leonard Fournette from the Jacksonville Jaguars; that fight ended with both of them being tossed from the game.
2022 saw two Bills get ejected that season. A.J. Epenesa got tossed from a game after 'making contact with an official' in a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then later in the season Daman Hamlin was kicked from a game after a hit on the New England Patriots' Jakobi Meyers that was flagged for unnecessary roughness.

Now we wait to see what happens with Gardner-Johnson when the NFL hands down its league-level discipline later this week.