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Thigh Doctor then ventured a guess as to what producer Oliver may have had done this offseason:<\/p>\n
Oliver has not participated in OTAs to date \u2014 there is one more session this week \u2014 yet is at the team facilities, per Syracuse.com\u2019s Matt Parrino<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another outstanding Bills-injury analyst on Twitter, Kyle Trimble \u2014 aka Banged Up Bills<\/a> \u2014 astutely pinpointed the amount of surgeries he\u2019s had since last year<\/p>\n Yikes.<\/p>\n Oliver is still only 28 years old and won\u2019t turn 29 until December. For a defensive tackle, he\u2019s still very much in the prime of his career.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure Bills would like Oliver to get onto the field to start repping the intricacies of Jim Leonhard<\/a>\u2019s new defense. Initial scheme adoption is taking place now, yet it\u2019s not necessarily time to worry about Oliver\u2019s potential lack of involvement.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If he\u2019s sidelined at the start of training camp, that would make for an entirely different story and indisputably raise the level of concern.<\/p>\n Last week, I compared Zane Durant to John Franklin-Myers<\/a>, a low-key vital piece to the Broncos<\/a> defense Leonhard coached the past two seasons.<\/p>\n Oliver, too, is on the Franklin-Myers comparison spectrum too at 6\u20191\u201d and 287 pounds with elite-level explosiveness and, as an NFL vet, plenty of point-of-attack power.<\/p>\n He appeared in just four games \u2014 counting the return-to-the-field cameo in the divisional round in Denver<\/a> \u2014 and registered a seismic 17.8% pressure rate (13 pressures on 73 pass-rush snaps). Anything over 10% is awesome for an interior rusher. Collectively, in his last two full seasons \u2014 2023 and 2024 \u2014 Oliver generated 121 pressures (counting the playoffs) on 1,009 pass-rush snaps, which equates to a pressure rate of 11.9%.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Hopefully by now everyone realizes Leonhard\u2019s scheme \u2014 with a three-man base front \u2014 is not going to simply ask its defensive linemen to eat blockers and never attack upfield. And you can bet your bottom dollar Oliver will be afforded many opportunities to penetrate and disrupt the opposition\u2019s backfield, clearly what he does best on a football field.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/14ef48939e8b94d0d4f001fce017970d.jpeg\"\/)
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