TL;DR
- Keon Coleman is a healthy scratch for the Buffalo Bills' Week 12 game against the Houston Texans.
- Coleman is being benched as a disciplinary measure for being late to a team meeting.
- This is the third disciplinary issue leading to a benching, but the first for a full game.
- There is no clear timeline for Keon Coleman's return to the active roster.
Here we go again with Keon Coleman.
Coleman has been deemed a healthy scratch by the Buffalo Bills for the second game in a row, this time for The Week 12 Thursday Night Football contest against the Houston Texans.
Coleman's absence was unexpected, surfacing less than a day before the Bills' Sunday game against the Buccaneers.
This felt somewhat anticipated. Throughout the week, there was no indication that Coleman would return to the field, so the absence of information suggested Coleman wouldn't be playing.
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Keon Coleman is not playing this evening for what reason?
The Bills are sitting Keon Coleman out Thursday night against the Texans as a disciplinary measure.
Coleman was late to a team meeting last Friday. It's the third time the Bills have benched him for a discipline issue, but Sunday was the first time it was for a full game.
Buffalo needs the No. 33 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft to figure things out.
He was drafted to be a long-term pass catcher for Josh Allen.
But right now, Coleman can't get open and can't show up on time.
Following the Bills' victory over the Bucs on Sunday, Coleman openly acknowledged his lateness, a promising development.
No reports suggest any issues arose this week, yet the Bills might have chosen to maintain the current situation during the brief week.
Gabe Davis has been promoted from the practice squad once more and will be active at wide receiver alongside Joshua Palmer, Elijah Moore, Khalil Shakir, and Tyrell Shavers.
When can we expect Keon Coleman to return?
There's no clear answer on this, but Coleman has one thing working in his favor ahead of Week 13.
Given the Bills' Thursday night game, their subsequent matchup won't occur until the Sunday following next week. This effectively creates a ten-day period for Coleman to further demonstrate his readiness for active duty on game days.
Given a scenario like this, considerably more information is held internally than is publicly known, making nothing definitive.
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