{"id":286213,"date":"2025-08-14T01:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286213\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:23:16","slug":"pair-of-buffalo-bills-safeties-return-to-practice-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286213\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Buffalo Bills safeties return to practice on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was plenty of good news regarding the Buffalo Bills Wednesday, August 13. The early morning news about running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalorumblings.com\/buffalo-bills-news\/113435\/james-cook-contract-extension-done\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Cook\u2019s four-year contract extension<\/a> has rightfully dominated headlines. Yet Bills reporter Sal Capaccio shared the welcome news that a key pair of defensive backs were back on the field and fully participating Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Quite simply, Buffalo getting back perceived starting safeties in Cole Bishop and Taylor Rapp is huge news. Head coach Sean McDermott had explained Tuesday that it was less than ideal to see Bishop miss so much time, and how his absence and now Rapp\u2019s recent injury meant less time to gel on the field together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalorumblings.com\/buffalo-bills-news\/113395\/mcdermott-says-getting-short-on-time-for-bills-s-cole-bishop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McDermott even wondered if the team was \u201crunning out of time,\u201d<\/a> perhaps in terms of preparing Bishop for a starting role this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Bishop\u2019s quadriceps injury appears healed enough to return to action at this point, which is positive news for a second-year player who\u2019s battled injuries dating back to training camp during his rookie season. The key for Bishop moving forward will be sticking like glue to the overused football mantra that states \u201cthe best ability is availability.\u201d Should Bishop struggle to remain healthy enough to play, veteran safety Damar Hamlin is ready to step in on a moment\u2019s notice, and he has plenty of starting experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Elsewhere regarding the safety room, while defensive back Cam Lewis saw a ton of action at safety with the starters last Saturday against the New York Giants, Capaccio noted having not seen him at Wednesday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was plenty of good news regarding the Buffalo Bills Wednesday, August 13. The early morning news about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,26331,2090,18564,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-286213","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-buffalo-bills-injuries","12":"tag-buffalo-bills-news","13":"tag-buffalo-bills-preseason","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115024507957966808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286213","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=286213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}