Orchard Park, NY (WGR 550) – Gabe Davis is once again with the Buffalo Bills. He’s not quite ready to play yet due to injury, so Buffalo inked him to the practice squad.
After Buffalo let him go, Davis signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars, played 10 games and was released. Many think Davis’ injury problems started in Jacksonville, but he said that’s not true,
“My whole thing was I just never truly got to get healthy. I had hurt my knee here the last regular season game against Miami and my knee just never got back to 100% and I was really struggling with trying to go full speed and not being able to be the player I knew I could be in Jacksonville and then in Week 10, I tore my knee and it was definitely stressful, but I’m just happy to be back in Buffalo because this is a great opportunity here and the team’s great , I have history here, so I’m just happy to be in a spot where I’m comfortable.”
Davis said he couldn’t run or cut like he normally could. He said,
“It definitely took a toll on me because it wasn’t too major to do anything about it so I had to keep pushing through it and it would figure itself out, and then I wind up popping my whole knee, so I feel like this is a reset.”
Davis isn’t fully healed, but he’s confident it won’t be too much longer,
“I’m feeling pretty good, I feel like I’ll be out there soon, just taking it day-by-day and not really deciding when it’s going to happen, it’ll just happen when it does.”
Davis felt having to jump into a season late, he felt Buffalo was the best place for him because he knows the system and he knows the city.
Davis said last season he didn’t watch his old teammates play until the playoffs started.
There’s a reason players like Davis, Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde, Jordan Phillips and others want to come back to Buffalo after they leave,
“I feel like it’s a family here," Davis said. “I feel like I’ve got a solid group of guys here that I can consistently call my brother and I know they’ll do anything for me and you just build so much here in such little time so it’s not really a business around here, it’s like everybody’s connected from the top down.”
Davis said he’s never had an injury like this before and he's had to keep that in his mind. In 2022 with the Bills, Davis had a career high 48 receptions for 836 yards and seven touchdowns. He actually had seven TDs in three of his four seasons with the Bills. He had six touchdowns in the other year.