Buffalo has a strategy figured out.
Bills reveal plans for Josh Allen, Mitch Trubisky and other starters in preseason originally appeared on The Sporting News
The Buffalo Bills' first-string offense will play in the preseason opener.
Well, most of it. The guy wearing No. 17 won't be out there, though.
The Bills will sit Josh Allen out on Saturday against the Giants. Mitchell Trubisky will start at QB.
Trubisky will be joined by the rest of Buffalo's healthy starters.
“Josh will not play this week," head coach Sean McDermott told reporters on Thursday. "The starters, the ones, will play give or take one quarter, and then it’ll flow from there."
There are two reasons the Bills will sit Allen.
The first is simple, just to ensure he stays healthy for the bigger tasks that are ahead.
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The second is subtler. This gives Trubisky a chance to play in a game setting with the first-team offense, which is what he'd have to do if Allen ever went down injured.
“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.”
This is also a big step for Trubisky, who is believed to be in a battle for the QB2 spot with Mike White.
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The fact that it's Trubisky, not White, who gets this time with the first-stringers on Saturday has to bode well for Trubisky's chances of earning the main backup role.
Trubisky's last extended NFL action came in Week 18 of 2024, when Allen played the first snap and then Trubisky relieved him. Overall in 2024, Trubisky was 19-for-26 passing for 179 yards and two touchdowns.
The Bills haven't made clear whether Allen will play at all this preseason, but he won't play Saturday.
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