ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott on Friday ruled out starting tight end Dalton Kincaid from playing against the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday because of a knee injury.
Kincaid was hurt in a 30-20 win over Indianapolis last weekend and did not practice this week. The second-year player ranks second on the team with 34 catches and third with 356 yards receiving, while scoring two touchdowns.
Kincaid’s absence further depletes the Josh Allen-led passing attack, which will already be without rookie receiver Keon Coleman, who will miss his second straight game with an injury to his right wrist.
Receiver Amari Cooper has a chance to return after missing two games with an injury to his left wrist, and will be listed as questionable to play, McDermott said.
Cooper, who has been wearing a brace on his wrist, on Thursday indicated he should be ready to play. He's appeared in just two games and has five catches for 69 yards and a touchdown since being acquired in a trade with Cleveland last month.
Starting right tackle Spencer Brown will also be listed as questionable with an ankle injury.
The AFC East-leading Bills (8-2) will have a chance to heal up in entering their bye week after playing the Chiefs (9-0).
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Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid (86) dives for a first down during the second half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar)
LONDON (AP) — British cyclist Lizzie Deignan, a former world champion and the only woman to win the ‘triple crown’ of monuments, will retire at the end of next season.
Deignan was the first British athlete to win a medal on home soil at the 2012 London Olympics, earning silver in the women’s road race. She competed in her fourth Olympics in Paris this year and was 12th in the road race.
Her Lidl-Trek team said in a statement on Friday she agreed on a one-year contract extension and will put an end to her almost two-decades-long career at the end of the 2025 season.
The 35-year-old Deignan was successful on the track first then morphed into a one-day race specialist. She won the rainbow jersey at the 2015 world championships, one of her many professional road victories at the biggest races.
She's won all three women's monuments: The Tour of Flanders in 2016, Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 2020, and the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021.
"Often people say, ‘Retire on the top.’ But I have no ego or necessity to retire at the top. I’m really happy to go full circle and be somebody that helps other people win bike races again,” she said.
Deignan put her career on pause in 2018 when she had her first child, and planned to retire earlier but was convinced to carry on by her team.
"The reason I initially wanted to retire was because I no longer have the motivation for my own results,” she said. “They spoke to me and offered me a contract in the vein of being a road captain and somebody that can mentor the younger riders coming through. That kind of sparked a bit of motivation in me and I thought, yeah, actually that’s something that I am really motivated by. I really enjoy bringing out the best in the people around me. I still love cycling.”
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FILE - Britain's Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deignan, of the Trek-Segafredo team, celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the Belgian women cycling classic and UCI World Tour race Liege Bastogne Liege, in Liege, Oct. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)
FILE - Britain's Elizabeth "Lizzie" Deignan celebrates on the podium winning La Course by Le Tour de France women's cycling race, in Nice, southern France, Aug. 29, 2020. (Christophe Petit-Tesson/Pool photo via AP, File)
