{"id":716908,"date":"2026-01-30T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716908\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:22:13","slug":"dalton-kincaid-knee-injury-wont-require-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716908\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Kincaid knee injury won\u2019t require surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid won\u2019t need knee surgery after all. Kincaid met the media on Thursday following the introduction of new head coach Joe Brady and said he got a second opinion on his injured knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking with press in the weight room, Kincaid confirmed that his torn PCL injury was from the 2024 season and it kept flaring up during the 2025 season. He missed four games in 2025 do to the injury (plus he sat out Week 18 with most of the starters).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bills general manager Brandon Beane confirmed the news with reporters, as well, saying Kincaid would work on strengthening the muscles around his knee with the weight training staff in an effort to continue avoiding surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Beane also said he anticipated picking up Kincaid\u2019s fifth-year option later this offseason, keeping him in town through at least 2027. The move is expected to cost the Bills around $8.7 million in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kincaid caught 39 passes for 571 yards as the team\u2019s leading tight end option. Buffalo\u2019s offense was very good when he was on the field and struggled when he was off it. They were 11-3 with Kincaid in 2025 (including playoffs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid won\u2019t need knee surgery after all. Kincaid met the media on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,26331,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-716908","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-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115984973772099038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716908","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=716908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}