The Buffalo Bills are set to take on the Houston Texans on Sunday for their first regular season game, but they did catch a little bit of a break for one of their games later on.
NFL insider Tom Pelissero reported on Sunday morning that Los Angeles Rams star pass rusher Myles Garrett will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his ailing knee and is heading to injured reserve.
“Rams star Myles Garrett will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his ailing knee and is headed to injured reserve, sources tell Ringer & Netflix Sports. Garrett has been dealing with lower-leg pain and wasn’t himself in Thursday’s opener. The hope is he’s back in four weeks,” Pelissero wrote on X.
Bills Will Not Have to Face Garrett in Week 5
With Garrett heading to injured reserve, he won’t be able to play when the Bills face the Rams in Week 5 on Oct. 12. Once a player is placed on IR, they are required to miss at least four games, and this will mark Garrett’s fourth missed game.
The Rams traded for Garrett in early June, sending young passer Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick, and a 2029 third-round pick to the Cleveland Browns.
Garrett is in his 10th NFL season and has appeared in seven Pro Bowls, and the NFL has named him to five All-Pro teams.
The Browns signed Garrett to a four-year, $160 million extension last season, but the Rams reworked his deal this offseason into a five-year, $204 million extension.
Bills Almost Had a Chance at Garrett This Offseason
When the Browns traded Garrett to the Rams, it seemed like that was the only team that made strong pitches to land the star pass rusher. However, the Bills were also in the mix.
Pelissero reported Wednesday that the Bills called the Browns the day they traded Garrett to the Rams, explaining their interest in the 30-year-old pass rusher.
“But sources say another team called Cleveland on the day the trade leaked: The Bills, who had checked in periodically on Garrett’s availability for the better part of two years,” Pelissero wrote. “Previously, the answer had always been the same: Myles Garrett is not available. Even if the Bills would’ve matched the draft pick compensation in the Rams’ trade package—and talks never got there—they couldn’t offer to trade a young edge player on a rookie contract such as [Jared] Verse, whose inclusion in the deal was pivotal in getting the Browns to relent and move the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year.”
One of the main reasons the Bills didn’t land Garrett was that they didn’t have a strong young pass rusher to match what the Rams had in Verse.
The Browns valued Verse more than another first-round pick, which meant the Bills had no chance of landing Garrett because they didn’t have the pieces to acquire him.
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