Buffalo Bills wide receiver Sammy Watkins suffered a broken foot earlier in the offseason and had surgery to insert a screw, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
Bills’ bad day gets worse with news of broken foot for Sammy Watkins
A foot surgery isn’t expected to cause Sammy Watkins to miss time in training camp.
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Watkins, 22, finished his second season with the Bills with 1,047 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, but has dealt with a few injuries early in his NFL career. He missed time during the 2015 season due to an ankle injury and had hip surgery early last year, although he was fine in time for training camp.
Rapoport said that will be the case again in 2016, as the screw in Watkins’ foot isn’t expected to keep him out of action for training camp at the end of summer. Watkins himself took to Twitter to reassure Bills fans:
To all my fans I'm doing great, can't believe everything you hear. Thanks for checking on me gotta love you guys. #BUFFLOVE
— King Me (@sammywatkins) May 16, 2016
The news of Watkins’ injury was revealed shortly after the Bills announced that first-round pick Shaq Lawson is soon to undergo surgery on his shoulder, which may cost him some time in the regular season. He was making a swim move on a tackling dummy when he aggravated the shoulder injury and it could sideline him five to six months, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Watkins was the No. 4 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft and became only the 10th receiver in Bills history to eclipse 1,000 receiving yards in a season, and the first to do so since Stevie Johnson in 2012. Buffalo mostly left its wide receiver corps alone during the offseason, not signing any free agents at the position and adding only sixth-round pick Kolby Listenbee in the 2016 NFL Draft.
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