{"id":85283,"date":"2025-08-21T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85283\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:48:08","slug":"bills-josh-allen-to-sit-out-entire-preseason-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85283\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills’ Josh Allen to sit out entire preseason for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alaina GetzenbergAug 22, 2025, 01:04 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

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — For the first time in his career, Buffalo Bills<\/a> quarterback Josh Allen<\/a> will not play in the preseason.<\/p>\n

Coach Sean McDermott said during his news conference Thursday that Allen will not be participating in Saturday’s third and final preseason game at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>. He did not play in either of the team’s previous two games.<\/p>\n

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McDermott said that they are still making decisions on some of the other first-team players for the game, but that Allen will not play.<\/p>\n

“[You’ve] got the reigning MVP, and I feel that he’s shown to this point that he’s in a good spot,” McDermott said. McDermott noted his responsibility to protect Allen and the team, and that Allen is “on schedule and he’s looked good.”<\/p>\n

Allen has only not participated in one team period during training camp, but has otherwise been a full participant, including in the team’s joint practice at the Chicago Bears<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Going into his eighth season, Allen is coming off his first MVP season and the fewest turnovers (eight) and sacks (14) of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alaina GetzenbergAug 22, 2025, 01:04 AM CloseAlaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Bills for ESPN. She joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-85283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85283","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=85283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}