Bills GM expects receiver Watkins to resume practicing

Wide receiver Sammy Watkins has been taken off the team’s IR, and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports he will play on Sunday when the Bills take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at home.

Darby was hit in the head when Jaguars running back Chris Ivory tried to hurdle Darby.

“Oh that was big”, Bills’ quarterback Tyrod Taylor said. They’d prefer to run anyway, so expect the ratio – unless the Bills are trailing in the second half – to be slanted quite a bit to the running game.

“It was ridiculous and we all know it”, said Ryan. In the wins? He’s thrown 25 passes or fewer in three of the five, with just 27 on Sunday against the Bengals.

Without Robert Woods, who is unlikely to play this week because of a sprained knee, the Bills could really use Sammy Watkins, even if he can’t be an every-down player yet. (It didn’t help the Bills, to be fair, when they lost Shady McCoy to a thumb injury, although Mike Gillislee was effective in McCoy’s absence.) It wasn’t pretty, but the Bills did enough to win in Cincy. The Bills have until 4 pm on Saturday to do so.

LeSean McCoy had 103 yards rushing and scored twice, including a career-high 75-yard run on the first play from scrimmage in the second half. First, they forced a three and out which included a run stop on 3rd and one. That optimism now has legs as the Bills elevated Watkins from injured reserve to the 53-man roster Saturday prior to the 4 pm deadline. “But like I said, he did a great job of tracking the ball, which he does very well”.

“At first, I was upset, angry, mad”, Watkins said via ESPN. “It just keeps our dream alive”. There’s no question they’d like to have him on the field, however.

After the Bills were called for a “running into the kicker” penalty in the second quarter, Bradley chose to redo the punt. Jacksonville has failed to score a touchdown on its opening possession in 24 games, the league’s longest active streak. You go all the way to London to have it come down to that? First downs are going to happen. “It’s like get back out there and do what we do”.

Watkins is expected to play, but he can’t be depended on this weekend by any means. Why? The Bills also got a 43-yard punt return from Brandon Tate late in the second quarter to the Jaguars’ 22 to set up their initial touchdown. “This is some momentum we got coming into next week”. “That was big for us”.

But this Sunday is the first time he’s returning to Buffalo with his new team – the Jacksonville Jaguars. Denard Robinson had a solid performance in the early going when Ivory went down, but swapping him with Yeldon led to unwanted results. Whether we’re comfortable or not, this is the situation we’re in.