The Buffalo Bills are missing two starters as training camp opens.
Wednesday marks the first day of training camp as the Buffalo Bills prepare for the 2025 regular season. As the team got ready to take the field, head coach Sean McDermott talked to the media to explain who would not be practicing.
Tight end Dawson Knox (hamstring), Sedrick Van Pran-Granger (calf), Spencer Brown (back) and Laviska Shenault (lower leg strain) will be sidelined to start off camp. The team is taking it “one day at a time” so none of the injuries appear serious.
For Knox it is not ideal because he is looking to bounce back after a couple of disappointing seasons. The tight end is trying to regain his 2022 form where he caught 48 passes for 517 yards and two touchdowns. The last two seasons however, he has combined for 44 catches for 497 yards but only three touchdowns.
The Bills had one of the healthiest offensive lines in all of football last season, so having Van Pan-Granger and Brown starting off camp with injuries is not ideal but hopefully more so of a precaution. The former is starting to show that he can be a legit backup center (and maybe a starter a year from now) in the league. The latter has become one of the better starting right tackles and is in the first year of his four-year extension that he signed last season. Brown’s injury was deemed to be a “flare up” and with it being the first day of camp the team is electing to got with a cautious approach.
Shenault was signed to the Bills as someone who could make a case to be the kick returner so any leg injury would not be a good sign. Depending on how long he is out expect cornerback Brandon Codrington to handle most of the returning duties in camp.
In more positive news, draft pick Deone Walker is off his rep count as we hit training camp. He had been limited in minicamp and the spring practices with a lingering back injury but should be full speed ahead as the big DT tries to unseat DaQuan Jones.
While fellow rookie Landon Jackson landed on the PUP list last week, he was activated to the full roster on Tuesday before camp kicked off.