PITTSFORD — The sun beat down and temperatures pushed 90 degrees with no reprieve. The last thing Curtis Samuel wanted as he walked around the field after practice was a milkshake.

But Samuel was drinking the milkshake so he could be on the practice field in the first place. He wasn’t on the field enough during his first season with the Buffalo Bills last year.

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