{"id":295426,"date":"2025-11-16T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295426\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:37:08","slug":"sources-bills-keon-coleman-healthy-scratch-after-missed-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295426\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Bills&#8217; Keon Coleman healthy scratch after missed meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaina Getzenberg<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763311028_75_getzenberg_alaina.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alaina Getzenberg<\/p>\n<p>ESPNAlaina 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.Nov 16, 2025, 11:12 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"232afaf2-01ac-fcc2-8bd6-66550df1703a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/buf\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"55041575-ba08-38c9-9261-b55db2c39071\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4635008\/keon-coleman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keon Coleman<\/a> will be a healthy scratch for the team&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13e8b157-a75a-ff24-ae91-fa3d52ddf204\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Making Coleman inactive is not related to his on-field performance in a game or practice, according to a source. It is instead because he missed a team meeting Friday morning. Before missing the meeting, the Bills had planned to play him.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman was a full participant in practice all week. This is the first time in his career he will be a healthy scratch for a full game.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 second-round pick has caught 32 receptions on 49 targets this season for 330 yards and three touchdowns. In Week 1 against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"38248455-3da4-84e4-8090-98b5cc38ffdc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, Coleman caught eight passes for 112 yards and a touchdown. Since then, he has 24 receptions, 218 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Bills wide receiver Keon Coleman won&#8217;t play Sunday after missing a team meeting Friday.\u00a0Mark Konezny-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Bills elevated wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"6c5c1b3d-32c0-84fd-a488-95fbed7c1a73\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4243537\/gabe-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabe Davis<\/a> from the practice squad for his first game since suffering a torn left meniscus when he was with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca6fb778-cbf6-d9a3-3e93-01230335fcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/jax\/jacksonville-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> last November. It will be his first game with Buffalo since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver and returner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4035004\/mecole-hardman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mecole Hardman<\/a> was also signed to the active roster from the practice squad before the game after joining the team earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman was benched for the first series of the team&#8217;s Week 5 game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0078f353-fe3e-67ed-a42c-43cca0568e21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ne\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>. He was previously benched for the first quarter of a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in his rookie season for not being on time.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Sean McDermott was asked this week if he is satisfied with Coleman&#8217;s effort on the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows if I&#8217;m not satisfied. &#8230; Just like any player. It&#8217;s fair that you&#8217;re asking about it,&#8221; McDermott said. &#8220;I can promise you it gets addressed when it isn&#8217;t where it needs to be. There are times like any player or any performer where it&#8217;s exactly where it needs to and there are times when it&#8217;s not. And then we have to address it to get it hopefully where it needs to be. So, it&#8217;s addressed. It&#8217;s been good at times and other times it can improve for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cover 1 first reported Coleman would be inactive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alaina Getzenberg Close Alaina Getzenberg ESPNAlaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Bills for ESPN. 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