Alaina Getzenberg, ESPN
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Then making it again to an NFL roster following 4 years clear of the league, defensive finish Shane Ray‘s walk has crash any other bump within the street.
On Monday, the Buffalo Bills positioned Ray on trauma keep. The walk may finish his season except an trauma agreement is reached. Professor Sean McDermott described him as “day-to-day” Sunday.
“It’s just one of those things that you gotta get healthy and, you know, that’s the main part for him to get healthy, man,” Von Miller informed ESPN of his similar pal and previous Denver Broncos teammate at a Monday investmrent tournament. “I’m sorry, he got hurt. I’m injured now [recovering from surgery on right ACL], so I already know what he’s dealing with. He’s staying here at my crib at the house, so that’s a good thing, too, where I can put my hands on him and keep my eyes on him, man, and, you know, I think he’s shown what he can do on the football field and, you know, whenever he gets that chance to go out there and play, that’d be great.”
Ray left Saturday’s preseason loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers with a hamstring trauma upcoming enjoying 12 overall snaps. Then the sport, he was once visibly emotional within the vault room and was once comforted by way of more than one teammates, together with heart Mitch Morse. In two preseason video games, Ray performed 32 defensive snaps, 9 particular groups snaps and one 2-point conversion. Ray, 30, was once an extended shot to produce a aggressive Expenses 53-man roster however performed smartly during coaching camp and the preseason.
“I know I still have a lot of good football left in me, and I just want to maximize that so that I can, no matter how this ends, I can go back and be like, ‘I gave it everything that I had under the circumstances, under the situation, I gave it everything I got and I can live with that,'” Ray stated in Would possibly of continuous his soccer walk.
The 2015 first-round draft pick out by way of the Denver Broncos signed with the Expenses upcoming a a hit rookie minicamp tryout. Ray was once at the Broncos staff that received Tremendous Bowl 50, enjoying 4 years in Denver (2015-2018), they all with Miller. He had his maximum fruitful season in his 2nd generation with 8 sacks and 21 quarterback hits, however he suffered a left wrist trauma all the way through coaching camp in 2017 that resulted in 4 surgical procedures. Ray performed 19 video games with the Broncos over his ultimate two seasons, however they didn’t re-sign him on the finish of his rookie offer.
Then at some point away, partially because of COVID-19, he performed two seasons for the Toronto Argonauts (2021-22), coping with extra accidents as smartly.
“I had to humble myself — more humbled than I could ever been before,” Ray stated about his day within the CFL. “From going to Canada and buying in, you know — I can’t act like there was days that I didn’t walk in, and I was like, ‘Bro, this is where I am? Like, I’m not supposed to be here.’ But that’s where I was, and I had to grind through it.”
The Expenses additionally positioned take on Tommy Doyle on injured keep. McDermott stated Doyle could be out for the season upcoming he was once carted off the farmland in Saturday’s recreation. The staff additionally signed working again Ty Johnson and take on Garrett McGhin on Monday.
