The Buffalo Payments’ protection will obtain a big increase for Sunday evening’s recreation towards the San Francisco 49ers and the stretch run of the 2024 season.
The team activated linebacker Matt Milano on Saturday. The previous All-Professional is anticipated to look in his first recreation since Oct. 8, 2023, when he suffered a season-ending leg damage towards the Jacksonville Jaguars. He has been sidelined for the primary 11 video games of the 2024 marketing campaign on account of a biceps injury.
Even with out Milano, Buffalo’s protection has been a top-10 unit within the NFL this season. If he can step in and begin taking part in like he did earlier than the accidents, getting him again into the center of the protection will make it extra formidable.
When he does return, he might expertise some early struggles, given that he’s 30 and has not performed soccer in 14 months. However as soon as he shakes off that rust, an already stable Payments’ protection has an opportunity to change into even higher.
Buffalo chosen Milano within the fifth spherical of the 2017 draft and has been a starter ever since. His greatest season got here in 2022 when he was chosen to the Professional Bowl and voted a first-team All-Professional.
The Payments (9-2) have a commanding lead within the AFC East and the second-best AFC file general. They continue to be only one recreation again of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs for the No. 1 seed and already maintain the head-to-head tiebreaker after beating them earlier this season.
