{"id":269642,"date":"2025-08-07T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269642\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:26:17","slug":"will-bills-qb-josh-allen-play-vs-giants-in-preseason-opener-decision-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269642\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Bills QB Josh Allen play vs. Giants in preseason opener? Decision made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> will begin their exhibition season on Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a>. Kickoff from Highmark Stadium is slated for 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As is usually the case, the playing status of starters on both side of the ball is in question.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In terms of one starter we have an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott revealed on Thursday that quarterback Josh Allen will not play against the Giants. In terms of other starters, they will take part for a quarter of action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills Wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bills Wire<\/a> will continue to provide updates throughout the 2025 preseason.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/2025\/08\/07\/will-buffalo-bills-josh-allen-play-new-york-giants-preseason-opener-sean-mcdermott-nfl\/85561899007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Will Bills QB Josh Allen play vs. Giants in preseason opener?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Will Bills QB Josh Allen play vs. Giants in preseason opener?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills will begin their exhibition season on Saturday against the New York Giants. Kickoff from Highmark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,52477,7,4704,872,56,6,3026],"class_list":{"0":"post-269642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-exhibition-season","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-highmark-stadium","15":"tag-josh-allen","16":"tag-new-york-giants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sean-mcdermott"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114988894770593224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}