Bills Enter Season with Secondary in Question as Injuries Mount

By Pat Freeman, The Mighty O’Ba

Bills vs Ravens (Photos by Jerome Davis)

The Buffalo Bills unfortunately will start the beginning of the season with some injury concerns, especially on the defensive side of the ball. The positions of safety and cornerback are areas that the team needs to upgrade their talent on the roster to improve how far they will go this season. They are hoping that Sam Franklin Jr. will provide some quality depth at the defensive back position. The injury to rookie first round pick Maxwell Hairston hurts in terms of the cor nerbacks on this team. Tre’Davious White injury creates an issue on how this group is impacted at this stage of the season.

In my years of covering the NFL, one learns that the victorious team on any given week was the healthiest. No other sport is so dictated by the immediate health of its players with chang es occurring each time they take the field. The Bills have had a problem keeping the back-end players healthy, since Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer held down the safety positions for seven years, and they still do not have the adequate replacements. These weaknesses seem to really come out against the ravens at times during the first week of the season.

The one area where I think the strength of this version of the home town team is the offen sive line. This group has been healthy over the last three seasons and continuity builds success, and the offense so far this year could be the strength of this team at this stage of the 2025 2026 season.

Their next opponent, though not victorious, week one could be a good barometer of how this version of the Bills will fare in the AFC