{"id":404757,"date":"2026-01-10T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404757\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:54:09","slug":"bills-rule-out-wr-joshua-palmer-for-wild-card-game-vs-jags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404757\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills rule out WR Joshua Palmer for wild-card game vs. Jags"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alaina GetzenbergJan 11, 2026, 05:41 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Alaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Bills for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Bills<\/a> will be without wide receiver Joshua Palmer<\/a> to start the postseason as he was downgraded to out on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Palmer is dealing with an ankle injury that led him to miss practice all week, but he was originally listed as questionable for Sunday’s wild-card game against the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> (1 p.m. ET, CBS). Coach Sean McDermott said Friday that they would “see how he does.”<\/p>\n

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Second-year wide receiver Keon Coleman<\/a> is expected to be active with Palmer down.<\/p>\n

Knee and ankle injuries led to Palmer missing five games during the regular season, though he did play in Week 18 against the New York Jets<\/a> (84% of snaps).<\/p>\n

The Bills have three other players questionable for the game: kicker Matt Prater<\/a> (right quad), running back Ty Johnson<\/a> (ankle) and linebacker Shaq Thompson<\/a> (neck). McDermott said that Thompson “should be good” to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alaina GetzenbergJan 11, 2026, 05:41 AM CloseAlaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Bills for ESPN. She joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-404757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}