The Buffalo Bills declared four players out ahead of their Wild Card matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars. One of those players, safety Damar Hamlin, is actually on injured reserve. The team opened his 21-day practice window this week, but he isn\u2019t ready to return. So, they had to declare him out. A second player, wide receiver Joshua Palmer, was initially listed as questionable thanks to an ankle injury, but he was also moved to injured reserve.<\/p>\n
Those two players won\u2019t count against Buffalo\u2019s 53-man roster this week\u2014or, in Palmer\u2019s case, for the rest of the 2025 season\u2014so the team still had five players in addition to the other two players listed as \u201cout\u201d to declare inactive today. Which seven Bills are inactive for this week\u2019s Wild Card playoff game?<\/p>\n
Here is the whole list of Bills inactives at Jacksonville.
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The veteran third-down back didn\u2019t practice until Friday, but he was listed as questionable heading into the game. He arrived today wearing a walking boot, which basically told us what we needed to know. James Cook and Ray Davis should see most, if not all, of the action at running back. Frank Gore Jr. is up from the practice squad, and he might make his professional debut.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a surprise, as the rookie tight end filled in when Dalton Kincaid was out, but now that the Bills\u2019 tight end group is back to full strength, he\u2019s not needed today.<\/p>\n
Buffalo\u2019s starter at left tackle last week is a healthy scratch today. Ryan Van Demark and Alec Anderson are the backup tackles. Sedrick Van Pran-Granger is the backup center.<\/p>\n
Buffalo\u2019s $6.5 million free agent signing at defensive tackle is a healthy scratch for the wild card game. Deone Walker, T.J. Sanders, DaQuan Jones, and Phidarian Mathis are the active defensive tackles.<\/p>\n
Bernard was one of the four players listed as \u201cout\u201d on Friday, so this isn\u2019t news. Shaq Thompson, who was questionable, is active. Matt Milano, Dorian Williams, Joe Andreessen, and practice squad call-up Baylon Spector are the other linebackers.<\/p>\n
Hairston was the fourth player declared out on Friday, so it will be Christian Benford and Tre\u2019Davious White starting at corner. Dane Jackson is up from the practice squad for reinforcement.<\/p>\n
The former first-round pick is a healthy scratch once again now that veteran Jordan Poyer is ready to play. Poyer missed Buffalo\u2019s last two games with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Here are the inactive players for Jacksonville. Starting left tackle Cole Van Lanen is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills declared four players out ahead of their Wild Card matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars. One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31141,26931,24732,24733,31142,116,118,117,31939],"class_list":["post-116119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-buffalo-bills-depth-chart","tag-buffalo-bills-discussion","tag-buffalo-bills-injuries","tag-buffalo-bills-news","tag-buffalo-bills-roster","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}