After a delay to their offseason schedule due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Bills players finally have started to get on the field and hit each other. With preseason games still canceled, each day of practice held in Orchard Park is that much more important before the team’s season opener against the Jets on Sept. 13.
Today’s edition of our takeaways is going to look at little different tan previous ones. At Thursday’s session, the Bills took the field at the stadium and held a scrimmage, of sorts. Typically practice days in camp this year are sparse with information from them, so we just cap it at a couple. This one will have a few extra nuggets, due to the nature of the beast… or scrimmage.
With that, here’s our takeaways from the Bills’ scrimmage at training camp:
Stefon Diggs is hurt
While most of the Bills offense was out there in their first scrimmage of training camp, one big piece was not: wide receiver Stefon Diggs. Prior to practice, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott said that Diggs wouldn’t practice, indicating he has a lower back problem. McDermott described it as “soreness.”
Naturally keeping Diggs healthy for a real game is much more important than a scrimmage. But it’s noteworthy that Diggs did not get out there for his team’s first actual full go of things.
As we told you earlier, Stefon Diggs was held out of practice with lower back soreness. He was on the sideline the entire time and wore the hell out of that hat #BucketHatSwag pic.twitter.com/tJVqpX1l0i
— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) August 27, 2020