Chris Johnson believes the Jets lied to him.

The running back said the Jets were not honest about what his role would be when he signed with the team last April.

“I think I went into a situation where I was told one thing, and it was another,” Johnson said Monday on “The Rich Eisen Show.”

Johnson rushed for a career-low 663 yards on 155 carries in his one season with the Jets. The team declined Monday to pick up his option for 2015, making him a free agent on March 10.

The Jets split carries among Johnson, Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell, something they said from the start of the season they would do. But Johnson seemed to believe eventually he would have a bigger role.

“Basically, it was a situation where I was going there to be the guy or whatever,” Johnson said. “It was still said, yeah, both guys [Johnson and Ivory] were going to get playing time. I think it was like after the [third] game or something like that, it just switched over and I started getting less and less playing time, and not knowing where it came from.”

Ivory had 198 carries for 821 yards last season.

Johnson said he does not blame former coach Rex Ryan. Instead, he believes general manager John Idzik dictated the playing time.

“Throughout the whole thing, I think last year, with that organization, I think a lot of the stuff was out of Rex’s hands,” Johnson said. “A lot of the things that we were doing, I think it was out of Rex’s hands. Don’t nobody know but it was a [bad] situation.”