The Buffalo Bills should be extra cautious with their star wide receiver’s injury at this point in the season.
With the nature of the NFL, every team is going to have to deal with injuries at some point in the season. Even though the season hasn’t started yet, the Buffalo Bills are already facing this reality with one of their most important players.
As Dan Fetes of 13WHAM tweeted Stefon Diggs missed his sixth straight practice on Tuesday. He wrote that the injury has moved from ‘Nothing’ to ‘Something’.
When a player misses this much time, it certainly raises some questions and Fetes is right that this should move from nothing to an injury that needs to be noted. However, the Bills could be extra cautious and take advantage of the time of the year when the injury took place.
Stefon Diggs is arguably the most important player on the Buffalo Bills not named Josh Allen. The team traded for Diggs last offseason and he was a key reason for them transforming into one of the top passing offenses in the NFL.
The Buffalo Bills can afford to be patient with Stefon Diggs
The Buffalo Bills are still over three weeks away from the start of the 2021 season and their Week 1 matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers. While it would be nice to have Diggs on the field for either preseason game, if the coaching staff plans to have starters even play in the preseason, the focus should be that game against the Steelers.
This training camp is different for Stefon Diggs and the Buffalo Bills. Last year, his first with the Bills, there may have been more urgency to get him back and reps with Josh Allen. However, now that the two have a full season playing together, they should have no problem picking up right where they left off.