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Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer injured on wild final play against Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The last play?

NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Buffalo Bills Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports
Matt Warren is Associate Director of NFL coverage for SB Nation and previously covered the Bills for Buffalo Rumblings for more than a decade.

Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer was injured on the final play of the game. As both teams were walking off the field, Poyer was being attended to by trainers.

The Bills are incredibly thin in the secondary. They lost both cornerback E.J. Gaines and cornerback Shareece Wright at different points in the game, leading to only two healthy cornerbacks on the roster at one point. No update has been given for either. Behind Poyer, they have Trae Elston and Shamarko Thomas at safety.

Bills head coach Sean McDermott had no update after the game, but did mention the length of the final play had a role.

“It’d be nice if there was a time clock on those plays,” said McDermott. “After a certain amount of time you have to call those plays dead.”

Here’s a look at the point in the play where Poyer was injured, when a Tampa Bay lineman falls into his knee:

Buffalo added cornerback Greg Mabin a couple weeks ago but released him when the rest of the cornerbacks were healthy. He is on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad now and could get another phone call. At safety, Robert Blanton was with the team earlier this year and is currently a free agent.

Update 4:58 p.m.: