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    PARCUL LIVADA – The Buffalo Bills won’t have tight end Dalton Kincaid Sunday afternoon when they hosts the Kansas City Chiefs at Highmark Stadium.

    Coach Sean McDermott said Friday morning that Kincaid is out for the game after suffering a knee injury early in last week’s win over the Indianapolis Colts.

    “We’re just going to take it one week at a time,” McDermott said when asked about Kincaid’s prognosis.

    Kincaid left that game, then tried to come back, but knew he couldn’t stay because, as he said afterward, “I didn’t feel good enough to run and go out there and protect myself.”

    How is Dalton Kincaid’s backup?

    In his place, Dawson Knox will play as the starting tight end, a job he held from 2019 to 2022 before the Bills selected Kincaid in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft.

    “Dawson is the No. 1 tight end. 1,” offensive coordinator Joe Brady said earlier this week. “He was the first tight end before we got Dalton Kincaid. Josh, (the coaches), we have full confidence in Dawson and everything he does in the passing game. We’re fortunate to have several tight ends that can do a lot of those things. Dawson is a great leader, a great football player and he has full confidence when he’s out there that he’s going to be able to do his job.”

    Kincaid has played 61 percent of the snaps this season, but Knox has played 57 percent. The difference in their usage is that Kincaid was more involved in the passing game, while Knox was used more as a blocker in the running game. Knox has just 16 targets, 10 catches for 142 yards and a TD, while Kincaid has been targeted a team-high 59 times and has 34 receptions for 356 yards and two TDs.

    The Bills also have Quintin Morris on the active roster, and he played 26 of 84 snaps this year last week after Kincaid was out. Morris has just one catch this year, but he went for a touchdown against the Dolphins.

    The tight ends of the Buffalo Bills practice squad

    On Saturday, the Bills could decide to elevate Zach Davidson from the practice squad to serve as their third tight end. As we’ve seen in training camp and the preseason, Davidson is a productive pass catcher, but he’s not a stellar blocker, and the Bills typically want to block their backup tight end in the run game, something Knox and even Morris they are more skilled.

    Sal Maiorana has covered the Buffalo Bills for four decades, including 35 years as a full-time writer for the D&C, and has written numerous books on the team’s history. He can be reached at [email protected] and you can follow him on Twitter @salmaiorana.

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