Bills Training Camp: Recapping The Injury Front

by Brian Galliford on Aug 8, 2010 12:30 PM EDT in Buffalo Bills Training Camp

The Buffalo Bills are off today - their first full day of rest after eight days and 13 straight padded practices at training camp. With 14 of their 80 players currently nursing some form of injury, perhaps it's best that the team get 24 hours to heal up a little bit.

Most of the injuries, it seems, are minor. Only one, the thumb injury to rookie offensive tackle Ed Wang, required surgery. Another rookie, outside linebacker Danny Batten, is nursing a shoulder injury that has kept his arm in a sling for the better part of a week. One more rookie, wide receiver Marcus Easley, has missed several consecutive practices with a bad knee. These appear to be the most serious of Buffalo's lengthy injury list.

Several more players, including Paul Posluszny, Keith Ellison, Chad Simpson and John Destin, have begun doing individual drills and appear on the cusp of returning to the practice field. Similarly, injuries to Cornell Green and Roscoe Parrish appear to be of the short-term variety. Two players returning from injury, linemen Demetrius Bell and Eric Wood, are not technically injured, but they're still not permitted to practice fully every day.

The prognosis is not known for three more injuries, to Spencer Johnson, Derek Schouman and David Nelson. Bills head coach Chan Gailey indicated that Nelson would be out for "a while," but Nelson told Buffalo Rumblings' MattRichWarren that he'd be back Monday.

The Bills did get two players back into the lineup late this week, with both Chris Kelsay and Kyle Williams returning from injury.

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I never thought I'd say this, but I'm happy that Kelsay is back.

As limited as his talent is, we still need him in the lineup to be successful this season.

Happy to hear that Williams is back too. In fact I’m happy that we have more players coming back then leaving, that’s always a good thing.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Aug 8, 2010 12:47 PM EDT reply actions

Me too

Can’t criticize him if he’s injured!

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Aug 8, 2010 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha! Still looking forward to your next anti-Kelsay rant.

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by CanadianBillsFan on Aug 8, 2010 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't think it's going to happen again....

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Aug 8, 2010 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions

gotta keep it clean and professional eh?

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by CanadianBillsFan on Aug 9, 2010 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions

do you truly believe this? is this something you have ever, or would have ever said in the past?

we still need him in the lineup to be successful this season

Chris Ellis is my choice, and I hope the coaching staff’s as well. Fact is, the kid is tailored for strong side run coverage, due to his skillset and measurables, and the fact that he basically was a bull rush/ contain DE on the strong side anyway. he would push upfield and contain the outside rush while Long would cruise around the outside. This forced a few sacks his way as i recall as well. This is highly beneficial to his current circumstance as he no longer is getting overpowered immediately by an O Lineman, and still can have same pass rush/ run contain responsibilites. Oh yeah, and he has been very effective so far in camp, witness him knock a pass down at practice yesterday, and most importantly, he isn’t Kelsay.

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by Ren Diggity on Aug 8, 2010 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh I’d LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEE for Ellis to become the starter and render Kelsay obsolete as a Bill, but the fact is that we are incredibly thin at OLB and we will need Kelsay for depth at the very least. Even as a backup he should be getting 30-40% of the snaps.

Whether we like it or not, and trust me I don’t, we need him on this team. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go throw up.

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If we give you the Jonas Brothers, can you please give us back Jimi Hendrix?
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by CanadianBillsFan on Aug 8, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions

most eager

to see poz and easley back in action…

i think they can make a big difference at their respective positions

gettin’ excited for friday! i have a fever and the only cure is some live football action

by dav630 on Aug 8, 2010 12:51 PM EDT reply actions

Is there something missing here?

Do we know specifically why each players is held out. Is it a knee, shoulder, hand, ankle, groin, hamstring etc… Just seems like there is a little more confidentiality here than in the past.

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by VanScottM on Aug 8, 2010 12:52 PM EDT reply actions

Demetrius Bell

I thought Matt said Bell was limping and favoring his leg the other night??

So far, so good in terms of avoiding major injuries. Knock on wood for the rest of the preseason.

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Aug 8, 2010 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

He looked bothered, but that was Friday night, and he definitely did all individual stuff on Saturday.

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by Brian Galliford on Aug 8, 2010 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

No, no, don’t knock on Wood!

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by thefourwinds on Aug 8, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Not hobbling favoring but limping certainly. They pulled him out halfway through the two-minute drill, too, which isn’t normal. Wood, for instance, was pulled before the drill started on purpose.

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by MattRichWarren on Aug 9, 2010 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Glad those new S&C guys are working out so well for us.......

:-/

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by norcaliangelsfan on Aug 8, 2010 4:38 PM EDT reply actions

For whatever it's worth

I hope all of these early minor injuries work themselves out and are the seed of a health regular season. I’m thinking we’ll end up way better on the overall injury front this year.

by syrbillsfan on Aug 9, 2010 10:43 AM EDT reply actions