Dawson Knox - wrist surgery

[stevestojan]

Wow. When did Knox become hated around here? He has four drops on the season. Yes, that’s most in the NFL for TEs. By one. Here are some guys with 3:

 

Mark Andrews

Sam Laporta

TJ Hockenson 

Evan Ingram. 
 

Even Mr. Swift has two.

 

I suppose those fans would also be happy if their starting TE needed surgery. 
 

WTF is wrong with this place? 
 

 

[The Jokeman]

We tried out 2 TEs when Morris went on the mend. Do we sign one of them? Bring back Jace Sternberger? Get someone off our or someone else's PS?

[Low Positive]

1 minute ago, Solomon Grundy said:

Isn't Gilliam considered a FB/TE? 

I guess, but he has 13 catches in three years. But he does block, so I guess he could fill that role.

[Bills!Win!]

When is Josh Allen's neck surgery? Or Diggs' ankle surgery? lets just add some more to the list why not?

[gobills404]

39 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:

Dawson Knox has never been right, even when healthy…

That’s not true at all. He literally led the team in catch percentage over the last 2 seasons and also had 15 TDs and a 118 passer rating when targeted.

[Big Blitz]

27 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Must be Von broke his wrist during that players only meeting. 

 

My guess is they knew this was possible and it contributed to any meeting. 
 

They have to be checking out - “we don’t have the dawgs.”

 

You look around expecting to make plays and good things happening.  Now they expect things to go wrong.  

[buffblue]

6 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

Wow. When did Knox become hated around here? He has four drops on the season. Yes, that’s most in the NFL for TEs. By one. Here are some guys with 3:

 

Mark Andrews

Sam Laporta

TJ Hockenson 

Evan Ingram. 
 

Even Mr. Swift has two.

 

I suppose those fans would also be happy if their starting TE needed surgery. 
 

WTF is wrong with this place? 
 

 

Now look at targets. For ease I will provide them to you:

 

Kelce 59

Engram 51

Laporta 49

Hockenson 47

Andrews 40

Knox 28

 

Edited October 23, 2023 by buffblue

[Billsatlastin2018]

51 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Good.  Get him right.  And if that doesn’t work, get him out.  Too many drops. 

Perfect! Likely, the way most of us feel- especially after yesterday.

[taglientep]

1 minute ago, buffblue said:

Now look at targets. For ease I will provide them to you:

 

Engram 51

Laporta 49

Hockenson 47

Andrews 40

Knox 28

 

That’s fair you have to look at drops as an overall percentage not just individuals numbers

[buffblue]

Just now, taglientep said:

That’s fair you have to look at drops as an overall percentage not just individuals numbers

I was just providing the numbers for the players that were referenced. Since Knox has more drops than any other TE, his drop % will accordingly be higher, in this case significantly 

[Brand J]

He had some sort of hand injury a couple years ago I believe, but still threw a 2 pt conversion to Josh. I’m tired of seeing Knox targeted, followed shortly by the football bouncing on the ground. Next man up. 

[ngbills]

Remember when we used only 1TE on most plays. Maybe go back to that...

[ALG1130]

27 minutes ago, JMM said:

THIS!  He chips to help out Brown on regular basis, you think Brown was a turnstile before, just watch.

Are we in the threshhold of hell or what? I mean, I would ask how much worse it could get, but I don't even want to think about it 😕

[DabillsDaBillsDaBills]

4 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

Wow. When did Knox become hated around here? He has four drops on the season. Yes, that’s most in the NFL for TEs. By one. Here are some guys with 3:

 

Mark Andrews

Sam Laporta

TJ Hockenson 

Evan Ingram. 
 

Even Mr. Swift has two.

 

I suppose those fans would also be happy if their starting TE needed surgery. 
 

WTF is wrong with this place? 
 

 

 

Dawson has twice as many drops as Kelce on half as many targets. Kelce has 5x the yards in 1 fewer games. 

 

Obviously it's not fair to compare Knox to the GOAT TE, but he's had a disaster of a season so far. 

 

Knox is paid to be a top 10 TE and his play isn't even in the top 30. 

 

I'll never be happy that a Bills player is injured, but it's easy to make the argument we'll be better with Knox out of the lineup

[dave mcbride]

54 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

I've mentioned this before but he has a broken bone, plus torn ligament & cartilage. I was surprised he has been playing at all.

 

Also this might sound callous but I take this as a positive. We need undependable players to stay off the field. Kincaid and Morris catch the ball.

Knox is a better receiver than he has been showing. I am sure the injury played a role in the drops. I can’t quite believe he was playing with that injury.

Just now, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:

 

Dawson has twice as many drops as Kelce on half as many targets. Kelce has 5x the yards in 1 fewer games. 

 

Obviously it's not fair to compare Knox to the GOAT TE, but he's had a disaster of a season so far. 

 

Knox is paid to be a top 10 TE and his play isn't even in the top 30. 

 

I'll never be happy that a Bills player is injured, but it's easy to make the argument we'll be better with Knox out of the lineup

It’s been a disaster because … wait for it … he’s been playing injured (not hurt; injured).

[Low Positive]

Just now, dave mcbride said:

Knox is a better receiver than he has been showing. I am sure the injury played a role in the drops. I can’t quite believe he was playing with that injury.

He was playing because Morris got hurt in the same game. The Bills, right now, have one TE on the active roster and he's not really a TE.

[dave mcbride]

10 minutes ago, gobills404 said:

That’s not true at all. He literally led the team in catch percentage over the last 2 seasons and also had 15 TDs and a 118 passer rating when targeted.

Don’t let facts get in the way of a crusade …

[Low Positive]

13 minutes ago, gobills404 said:

That’s not true at all. He literally led the team in catch percentage over the last 2 seasons and also had 15 TDs and a 118 passer rating when targeted.

Don't give me stats. He dropped a ball YESTERDAY! I know because I saw it on my TV.  /s

[TheBrownBear]

57 minutes ago, Logic said:

I understand the Prisoner of the Moment stuff to a degree, because Knox has had a few key drops lately.

However...any kind of notion that this somehow makes the Bills offense better seems ridiculous to me. 

Drops or not, Dawson Knox is a good player for the Bills. A good all-around tight end, and likely the Bills' best blocking tight end by a significant margin.

Losing him hurts in the run game, it hurts personnel multiplicity, and it hurts depth.

This does NOT make the Bills offense better, and it seems foolish to suggest that it somehow does.

Ugh. I hate logic. 😅

[frostbitmic]

Is he going to IR ? ... We've gotten keep the streak going