The Buffalo Payments’ protection will obtain a big enhance for Sunday evening’s sport 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 predicted to seem in his first sport since Oct. 8, 2023, when he suffered a season-ending leg harm towards the Jacksonville Jaguars. He has been sidelined for the primary 11 video games of the 2024 marketing campaign attributable to 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 could 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 strong Payments’ protection has an opportunity to turn into even higher.
Buffalo chosen Milano within the fifth spherical of the 2017 draft and has been a starter ever since. His finest 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 total. They continue to be only one sport 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.