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Buffalo Bills
Aug 7, 2025 9:28 AM EDT
The Buffalo Bills will play their first of three preseason games on Saturday against the New York Giants.
Bills coach Sean McDermott informed the media on Thursday that quarterback Josh Allen will rest during Saturday’s game and that Mitchell Trubisky will get the start under center.
McDermott stressed that other healthy starters will get playing time.
“Josh will not play this week. The starters, the ones, will play give or take one quarter, and then it’ll flow from there,” McDermott said.
The point, McDermott continued, is to get Trubisky playing time with the first team – the group that he would match with should something happen to Allen during the regular season.
“That’s huge,” McDermott said. “Certainly want to be mindful of Josh, mindful of any starter — any of our players, we never want to see them get injured. The benefit of this, we hold Josh out, we keep him in a good spot. He’s been playing extremely well in camp — you guys have been out here — and we get a chance to look at Mitch and some of the other quarterbacks. We’ll gain live action with the ones, in this case, for Mitch.”
Since taking over as the starter in 2019, Allen has started every game for Buffalo, registering 26,434 yards and 195 touchdowns across 111 career games.
Trubisky did play in nine games last year, including most of the matchup against the Patriots in Week 18 when the Bills’ starters were resting.
Buffalo and New York will kick off at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
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