Promising rookie boundary cornerback Dorian Strong was lost for the 2025 season after suffering a neck injury during the Buffalo Bills\u2019 Week 4 win over the New Orleans Saints. Now, it appears Strong\u2019s playing future is in serious jeopardy as he deals with a potential career-ending injury.<\/p>\n
In an interview with reporters following Buffalo\u2019s press conference introducing Joe Brady as the team\u2019s next head coach, Brandon Beane, president of football operations and general manager, said Strong\u2019s football future is up in the air. \u201cIt\u2019s a very serious deal. He\u2019s potentially going to have a procedure that will determine whether he can play,\u201d said Beane, according to reporting from New York Upstate\u2019s Matt Parrino.<\/p>\n
That early season injury derailed what had been a promising start to his NFL career for Strong, a sixth-round pick (No. 177 overall) out of Virginia Tech. Strong had earned a start in Buffalo\u2019s Week 1 win over the Baltimore Ravens, taking 51 snaps in the secondary and adding 10 snaps on special teams while making two tackles in Buffalo\u2019s come-from-behind 41-40 triumph over the Ravens.<\/p>\n
Strong was relegated to a reserve role for Weeks 2 through 4, splitting time with veteran cornerback Tre\u2019Davious White. He recorded a pair of tackles in the win over the New York Jets, picked up three more tackles in the primetime win over the Miami Dolphins, and added four solo tackles against the Saints.<\/p>\n
In those three weeks, Strong logged 36 total snaps on defense and 36 snaps on special teams. He was placed on Injured Reserve leading up to Buffalo\u2019s Week 5 clash with the New England Patriots and never saw action during the rest of his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n
Bills fans are hoping Strong receives good news as a serious neck injury like this could have serious long-term ramifications on Strong\u2019s quality of life off the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promising rookie boundary cornerback Dorian Strong was lost for the 2025 season after suffering a neck injury during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26331,2090,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-722670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills-injuries","9":"tag-buffalo-bills-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115998366477414000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722670","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=722670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}