Bills' Miller to IR, out at least next four games

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The Buffalo Bills person placed pass-rusher Von Miller connected injured reserve with a genu injury, hours earlier the team's Thursday nighttime crippled against the New England Patriots.

Miller volition miss astatine slightest the adjacent 4 games aft suffering lateral meniscus harm to his close knee, per Miller, during the team's triumph implicit the Detroit Lions connected Thanksgiving. The team's hope, per wide manager Brandon Beane successful a excavation report, is that helium volition beryllium capable to instrumentality this season.

"He's been doing attraction and trying to rehab it," Beane said. "We don't privation to unreserved him back, and he's a competitor. That's wherefore we emotion him. That's wherefore he's truthful great. The rival successful him -- if helium could instrumentality it retired determination tonight, helium would bash it. We conscionable deliberation successful talking to the aesculapian radical that the champion determination close present is to springiness this time, and that gives him the champion accidental to assistance america down the stretch."

The Bills, who are 0-2 successful the part to commencement the season, are opening a three-game agelong against 3 AFC East opponents. The earliest Miller could instrumentality is Week 17 against the Cincinnati Bengals.

"Knowing that Von is inactive around, and his property is inactive around, that's conscionable arsenic bully arsenic him being retired determination connected the tract if you inquire me," antiaircraft tackle Ed Oliver said.

Although the defence volition beryllium without the team's sack person successful Miller for a cardinal stretch, antiaircraft ends AJ Epenesa and Greg Rousseau are acceptable to marque their returns from ankle injuries against the Patriots.

Miller said connected his podcast Tuesday that helium was hopeful helium would beryllium capable to instrumentality for the team's crippled against the New York Jets adjacent week, but Beane said putting him connected injured reserve Thursday allows Thursday night's crippled to number for his games missed.

"I bash person immoderate lateral meniscus damage, and it's going to person to beryllium addressed," Miller said connected the podcast. "But I bash consciousness similar I can, you know, play done that, truthful I'm conscionable gonna hold a small bit, and fto the swelling spell down for astir 7 to 10 days and, hopefully, close earlier the Jets crippled I volition beryllium back."

Miller ranks 3rd successful the NFL successful backmost pressures (38) down Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (46) and Patriots linebacker Matthew Judon (36). No different Bills subordinate has much than 12 pressures, with Miller's 216 unit spread the largest successful the NFL this season. Miller leads the Bills successful sacks (eight), walk unreserved triumph complaint (23.7%) and unit percent (14.6%).

"If I'm retired there, you cognize that I'm acceptable to spell and I consciousness wholly confident," Miller said.