Bills star LB Miller out for season with ACL injury

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills pass-rusher Von Miller is retired for the remainder of the play aft having country for an ACL injury, manager Sean McDermott announced Wednesday.

Miller underwent exploratory country successful Texas connected Tuesday, and an ACL wounded was recovered successful his close knee. The pass-rusher was placed connected injured reserve past Thursday earlier the team's crippled against the New England Patriots. The anticipation was that helium would beryllium capable to instrumentality this season. Miller had adjacent said connected his podcast past week that helium hoped to instrumentality earlier this Sunday's crippled against the New York Jets.

The Bills (9-3) presently person the apical effect successful the AFC with 3 games inactive to travel against the AFC East.

"Unfortunate situation, for Von, obviously, and our team. Care for him, obviously, similar we would immoderate player," McDermott said. "We cognize however overmuch this means to him successful presumption of playing and being with the team, truthful we look guardant to getting him back, evidently disconnected the tract for the remainder of the play and his leadership, and we're surely reasoning astir him arsenic helium recovers here."

The Super Bowl 50 MVP suffered the wounded connected Thanksgiving astatine the extremity of the archetypal fractional of the team's triumph against the Detroit Lions.

Miller, who signed with the Bills successful the offseason connected a six-year, $120 cardinal contract, started each crippled this play but this past Thursday's and leads the squad with 8 sacks and 38 pressures.

"Listen, you attraction astir each player, right, and it affects you erstwhile guys spell down," McDermott said. "It's the concern we're in, it's a carnal game, and truthful we attraction for everyone. Certainly, we attraction for Von successful this case, and we'll miss him. But arsenic I said past week erstwhile helium was out, it's a clip and an accidental for different guys to measurement up."

In the team's archetypal afloat crippled without Miller against the Patriots, the Bills defence pressured backmost Mac Jones connected 39.5% of his dropbacks -- the second-highest of complaint of his career.