Orchard Park, N.Y. (WGR 550) - Organized Team Activities are coming to an end for the Buffalo Bills. This is the final week before the team wraps up their offseason work with a mandatory minicamp next week.
Tuesday was the final OTA session open to the media. Because of a consistent rain overnight and throughout the day, the team held its practice inside the ADPRO Sports Training Center.
Several notable veterans were not present for the voluntary session, including wide receiver Stefon Diggs, defensive end Von Miller, and safeties Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer.
Maybe even more notable were the amount of players who were there but working off to the side, mostly with trainers. This included wide receivers Jake Kumerow, Isaiah Hodgins, and rookie Khalil Shakir. It was the second week in a row Shakir was working with trainers and not on the field with the team. Kumerow didn't do much work with trainers, but was still walking around with his position group and talking with coaches and teammates.
Tight ends Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney were also among the group working with the training staff.
It was a nice bounce-back day for wide receiver Marquez Stevenson, who struggled to catch the ball a little bit the last time the media was allowed to watch practice a week ago. Stevenson made a big play right off the bat, catching a deep ball from Josh Allen, even in tight coverage from rookie first round cornerback Kaiir Elam. Stevenson made a couple of other grabs, as well.
Allen threw a couple of beauties, including one from the pocket, perfectly between defenders to Gabriel Davis, who was able to tap his toes inbounds. Another came while on the run just before going out of bounds, hitting wideout Jamison Crowder, who had a few grabs, as well.
Crowder didn't make the catch, however, on another really nice pass from Allen that was broken up at the very last second by cornerback Taron Johnson, who stayed with him throughout the route and made an excellent play at the end to knock the ball away.
A couple of coverage breakdowns led to touchdown passes, as well. One to running back Devin Singletary and another to wide receiver Tanner Gentry, who did a great job catching the ball throughout practice.
Kicker Tyler Bass drilled every field goal presented to him during that portion of the practice, incrementally increased in yardage, from a 30-yard field goal to a 48-yarder at the end.
The next OTA session will be on Thursday, followed by the last one of the offseason on Friday, then mandatory minicamp next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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