The Buffalo Bills may have had plenty to celebrate following their convincing 48-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Buffalo on Sunday, but the victory came with some somber news as the team fears All-Pro cornerback Tre’Davious White suffered a torn Achilles during a noncontact play, according to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington.
White suffered what is believed to be a torn right Achilles in the third quarter of the Bills’ dominant win, and Bills head coach Sean McDermott said to NFL journalists after the game that White is still being evaluated. An MRI is set for Monday.
“He’s been through a lot. And sometimes you wonder, right? Why things like that happen twice, you know, to someone,” McDermott said. “I’m not saying what it is, what it isn’t. I’m just saying like, you know, you just wonder why.
“Because you watch him and how hard he’s worked to get back. And yeah, you know, I just, I know he’s a man of faith. And I know how strong he is. And you know, he will, he will rebound.”
White is less than a year removed from making a return to action a year after tearing his left ACL. Now, he is in jeopardy of missing more time, perhaps the rest of the regular season, and seemd to know he suffered a sever injury based on his reactions. White was attended to by athletic trainers and threw his helmet in frustration. The injury comes less than two years after White tore his left ACL on Thanksgiving back in 2021.
“Sometimes, at that point, there’s really nothing you can say,” Bills safety Micah Hyde said. “It’s kind of one of those situations that words can’t really help Tre’Davious at that point. He understands we’re there for him. We love him. And like I said, 2-7 is a big part of this team.”
“He personifies what it is to be a Buffalo Bill. His family is tremendous,” an emotional McDermott said. “And he works as hard as anybody I’ve ever been around. And I love him.
“I mean, to see him on that field, the way he was hurting, is hard. It’s hard to watch. But I’m so proud of the team and the way they rallied around him. And I know, like I said earlier, I know that he will rebound. He’s just, he’s too tough.”
“In Cincinnati, I was in the hospital [recovering from cardiac arrest], watching [White] sit at this same podium and speaking so highly of me. I watched him come in the building every day and, you know, work his ass off,” Bills safety Damar Hamlin said of White. “He’s probably the hardest worker on the team.
“And just being a young player, they always tell you, find some older guys to find yourself through about routine, about the way they carry themselves, by just who they are, who they become over the league. … From a distance, I admire his work ethic, I admire who he is as a person, his consistency, his discipline, everything. So we’re with him, for sure.”
