{"id":822412,"date":"2026-08-22T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:50:11","slug":"bills-browns-preseason-game-resumes-after-hourlong-lightning-delay-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822412\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills-Browns preseason game resumes after hourlong lightning delay | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon&#8217;s\u00a0preseason game <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/bills-at-browns-2026-pre-2?tab=live\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">between<\/a> the Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns was halted by an hourlong weather delay.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo and Cleveland kicked off on time from Huntington Bank Field, but left the field with 13:30 left in the first quarter due to lightning in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Play resumed at 2:15 p.m. ET after the storm passed.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/shedeur-sanders\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a> is expected to get the start at quarterback for the Browns, while <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kyle-allen\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Kyle Allen<\/a> started for the Bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday afternoon&#8217;s\u00a0preseason game between the Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns was halted by an hourlong weather delay. Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,1807,1799,3,349,6257,8465,99],"class_list":["post-822412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-preseason","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}