Some excellent news on the Terrel Bernard entrance. The Payments linebacker isn’t anticipated to land on injured reserve, in line with Sean McDermott (per Joe Buscaglia of The Athletic). Whereas the top coach admitted that he can’t say something definitive, he felt the Payments wouldn’t have “to go in that route.”
“Don’t know the rest proper now,” McDermott stated when requested a few potential IR stint for Bernard (through ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg). “I don’t assume so, however nonetheless I can’t make that assertion with 100% certainty proper now. However I really feel like we received’t must go that route.”
Bernard exited Buffalo’s Week 2 win over Miami after moving into solely 14 defensive snaps. The linebacker happily prevented the worst-case state of affairs, along with his pectoral harm proving to be a pressure vs. a full tear. McDermott later confirmed that Bernard would miss a number of weeks. The workforce was afforded some additional time to find out any IR machinations contemplating their 11-day break between Week 2 and Week 3. Earlier than immediately’s encouraging information, Bernard had already been dominated out for Monday evening.
The previous third-round decide had a breakout marketing campaign in 2023, ending with 143 tackles and 6.5 sacks. The Payments supposed to be particularly reliant on the third-year professional in 2024, as Matt Milano is sidelined indefinitely with a biceps tear. A four-week absence for Bernard would stress the workforce’s LB depth, though it appears like they’ll solely must quickly take care of a depleted depth chart.
Former seventh-round decide Baylon Spector stepped in for Bernard final Thursday and ended up enjoying a position-high 62 snaps whereas compiling 10 tackles. Dorian Williams will even assist to take in lots of the snaps at linebacker, with the likes of Nicholas Morrow and Joe Andreessen representing the workforce’s depth on the place.
