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Hmmm. Shavers is an UDFA. Shorter is a late 5th round pick. Shakir is a late 5th round pick. Gabe Davis is a late 4th round pick. Hodgins is a late 6th round pick. Davis played for us 4 years and signed a low #1/high #2 contract in FA. Shakir seems to be someone we're counting on this year. That's at least 40% hit rate, if you don't count Hodgins having played decently for the Giants (just got cut though) I personally think the weak point is that Beane hasn't invested enough 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks in WR - not that he's especially poor at ID'ing Day 3 WR talent in the draft. I think if you look at Beane's overall draft record it's not breaking 40% at CB or LB or any other position drafted on day 3, and actually, 40% is pretty good

It surprised Sal Capaccio as well - he had them keeping 6 DE, but he had Jonathan over Toohill

I'm sorry, I meant "confident that Samuel and MVS will be ready to play week 1" If you're going on the point that the Bills haven't given Allen enough weapons at WR, I don't disagree, but do you really see Shavers and Hamler as difference makers there?

Wow, I thought one of Shavers or Hamler would make it. They must be very confident in MVS and Samuel.

I dunno. I think the Bengals have a talent advantage on defense - of course, depending on who is actually on the field for the Bills Perhaps I'm mistaken. And I don't know that much about their safeties, I just think they have a really good DL and CB

There's always the "he toughed his way through the 2nd half but he really has a neck injury, and it won't be a quick one to recover from" a la Shane Buechele

Sal has 10 DL?

That'd be nice... I mean, "what a shame that fine young man might have a promising career start derailed by this"

Deion Jones surprises me. Guess he's this year's Christian Kirsey

He only counts if/when he comes back. There's no special "IR with designation to return" when a player goes on IR any more, it's just a total of how many players can be brought back from IR over the season. But if any player is on IR and brought back, he counts, including one who was IR'd at the beginning of the season. Note there is a rule change this year, two players may be carried on IR without having to be on the 53 man roster, and still be eligible to come back That could occur, certainly Wait wat? Last I heard McDermott was "optimistic" Samuel would be ready at the start of the season?

There was an article about McDermott going back through HS and one of his friends from way back commented that McDermott could really dance!

Kyron Brown. UDFA who started with the Jets in 2019, has been on PS with the Cowboys and Titans. 3rd year.

If they're injured, they can't be cut.

OMG The snark is because it's very rare that a team will keep 3 QB. The #3 QB usually hits the waiver wire on cutdown day.

Turf toe is a fundamentally a sprain, meaning the ligaments are stretched or torn. Like any sprain, the stretching/tearing comes in different degrees. A badly sprained turf toe can indeed linger. A mildly sprained turf toe can recover in a couple weeks. I think the "week to week" designation implies the latter more than the former, but none of us really know. Will you bite your everlovin' gawdforsaken little pointed tongue? Mu - Unsay it! AVERT! You take that back RIGHT NOW!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4801978/2023/08/24/fantasy-football-injury-mailbag-turf-toe-recovery-time/ So yeah, turf toe can linger, but if it's a mild Grade I sprain (implied by the week to week) he may be out a couple weeks to heal up and no problem.

I think Tannehill still has "legitimate chance to start" on his want list for a new team. Yes. Keenum is with the Texans and has a pretty good contract. Kyle Allen is under contract to the Steelers - did he play in the preseason game?

He was really bad in Pittsburgh. That's why they boo'ed him.

Um, yes? That was the point of the article I quoted and the examples Banged Up Bill gave. Is there a reason you deleted the rest of my post and responded only to the earliest possible timeline Bangedup found? I'm sure that's true, but I don't think it means he'll be back any sooner than the end of December - IF at all. Remember that Milano wanted to take the field like 3 weeks after a partial pec tear in 2020. Spoiler he wasn't effective, and after 2 ineffective games the Bills IR'd him.

Not being a trainer, I'm not going to comment but I've been told that a torn tendon is felt as it occurs as a burning pain and being able to feel/see the tendon retract. There must have been something atypical about Milano's injury. I agree, the Bills have had some really horrid injury luck the past couple years.

There's no question we need another safety since Mike Edwards seems to have an injury requiring prolonged rehab and Bishop hasn't been able to be on the field learning the system.

Chou really wouldn't know. He's making an educated guess based on his experience as the Chargers team doctor - during which tenure a number of players sued for mis-handled injuries. Bangedup Bills has a blog post with pictures of the biceps anatomy and how it's repaired. Whether or not you like him, the pictures are relevant and interesting. Assuming Milano has surgery Monday or has already had surgery, 19 weeks (like Judon) would put him at the end of December, and bear in mind that's Judon saying "I would have been ready" and his team shutting him down.

Dorian Williams is fast and can tackle but the problem seems to be he isn't "getting it" as far as being able to diagnose the play after the snap and understand what that means to his assignment. That's bad news as a potential replacement for Milano.

Well, you can't cut an injured player. Claypool is reported to have reached an injury settlement with the Bills. So, anyone wondering if he could beat out MVS for a roster spot, or challenge Keon Coleman for playing time, may now stop wondering.

They don't have to play safety better than Cam Lewis. They have to play safety, nickel, boundary corner, and ST better than Cam Lewis