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The timing of Miller’s return in Week 5 raises questions. Miller missed all offseason programs and training camp due to his injury. Then he participated in a week of practice in which he was limited to three days before being sent onto the field to face the Jacksonville Jaguars on a turf field in London on which Bills players played. noted that it was not good to play.<\/p>\n
“There’s no perfect solution probably because you’d like to send him to training camp. And there’s only so many padded workouts you can do,” the general manager said Brandon Beane. “… Certain elements of the game are what he needs as part of his return. We could have kept him out for two or three more weeks, had him practice more. But these game reps , he’s probably getting more out of it than he would be out of practice where contact is limited.”<\/p>\n
Whatever the expectations for a 34-year-old passer coming off a major ACL injury, the focus has been on Miller being healthy and at his best when the team needs him most late in the season . But with so many injuries on defense \u2013 including three starters on IR \u2013 the Bills need all the help they can get right now to increase pressure on opposing quarterbacks.<\/p>\n
Miller signed a six-year, $120 million contract in 2022 to be the impact passer the defense was missing. In his first year with the team, Miller tied for first on the team in sacks (eight) with Greg Rousseau and led the team with 38 pressures in 11 games. He also finished with the best win rate (23.6%) and pressure percentage (14.5%) on the roster.<\/p>\n
Miller’s goal recovery time after surgery in early December was about nine months.<\/p>\n
“You use tissue [to repair the knee] it has to — kind of what we call ‘ligamentous bonds’ — it gets stronger over time,\u201d said Dr. James Tibone, co-director of sports medicine and orthopedic specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Los Angeles Center. \u201cIt looks more like an ACL over time and if you look at it in basic science, it takes about 18 to 24 months. But that, obviously [professional athletes are] not that long, so someone usually comes back at nine months at the earliest and usually doesn’t have very good results. It\u2019s probably the norm after 12 months that they start to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tibone said returning before nine months leads to a higher recidivism rate.<\/p>\n
Miller wore a brace on his right knee during games, which he said in October would be reduced to a smaller brace after the Broncos game. The hope is that by the end of the season or the playoffs, he won’t need it at all.<\/p>\n
This isn’t the first time Miller has dealt with a major ACL injury. In 2013 with the Broncos, he tore his right ACL but returned for the start of the 2014 season. Miller said that while he thought the recoveries would be the same, “it’s just different all around” . But his mindset on each of his injuries is the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to make these huge leaps and bounds every week, but the reality is I’m getting a little bit better every week,\u201d Miller said. “I’m grateful for that and I can accept it. This is year 13 for me, and I just know how it goes. I know I can still play. I know I can still get some of the things that I’ve done in the past and the type of player I was, I know I can still be and I feel like that’s what motivates me.”<\/p>\n
Miller said he would love to get on the field and play like the Miller of Super Bowl 50, but that’s not how bodies work.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how I try to fool myself, no matter what games I play with my mind, no matter where I am mentally, the body is just totally different,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I can accept the kind of progress I\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What’s going on with Bills’ Von Miller? ‘I know I still can play’\u060c Alaina Getzenberg, ESPNNovember 11, 2023, 11:00 a.m. Close Alaina Getzenberg is a writer who covers the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a reporter for the Charlotte Observer and also worked for CBS Sports and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1898,1453,954,5436,27],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bills","tag-miller","tag-play","tag-von","tag-whats"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8968,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/8968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}