The Buffalo Bills find themselves in an unexpected dogfight for first place in the AFC East with that spot now held by the resurgent New England Patriots, but on Sunday their full attention will be focused on another heated rivalry.
The defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs will come to Orchard Park, New York, for a nationally televised 4:25 p.m. Eastern Time game that could go along way to deciding not only the AFC East, but also the AFC West, and even whether each team will make the playoffs at all.
But the Bills’ highly anticipated addition at wide receiver for the Chiefs showdown suddenly evaporated on Friday as quickly as it has materialized just a day earlier.
The Bills and Chiefs have met in the regular season in each of the last four years, and Buffalo has won all four games. In the postseason, exactly the opposite has been the case.
With future Hall of Fame quarterbacks leading both teams â Patrick Mahomes for Kansas City, Josh Allen for Buffalo â the two AFC powerhouses squared off in the 2025 and 2024 postseasons, as well as in 2021 and 2022. The Chiefs won all four of those.
In that time span, the Chiefs have racked up three Super Bowl wins. The Bills have failed to get there at all â as they have in every season since the 1993-1994 campaign.
Josh Palmer Injury Hampers Receiving Corps
The Bills appeared to be entering this regular season matchup with Kansas City at a disadvantage. Among the players ruled out for the game, as announced by head coach Sean McDermott Friday, wide receiver Joshua Palmer who is suffering from knee and ankle maladies.
The absence of Palmer, who has caught 14 passes for 234 yards including 10 first-down receptions, gives Allen one less option, but it was not a surprise. Palmer did not practice Wednesday and was limited in his participation Thursday.
To make up for the loss of Palmer, the Bills on Wednesday elevated the player they drafted with their fourth-round pick in 2020 â but let walk away as a free agent after his rookie contract expired â to their active practice squad roster from injured reserve.
Davis Will Not Play Against Chiefs
After Davis was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he caught just 20 of 42 passes targeted his way in 2024, the Bills reunited with the former UCF Knights 1,200-yard receiver, signing him prior to the start of this season â but immediately sending him to the injured reserve list.
As it turns out, Davis has not fully healed the knee injury that hampered his season in Jacksonville. After Davis experienced inflammation during Thursday’s practice and sat out on Friday, McDermott announced that Davis will not play in Sunday’s game after all, according to a report by Matt Parrino of Syracuse.com.
Because Davis remains on the Bills practice squad, he is not included on team injury reports and is not officially “ruled out” of the game Sunday.
In addition to his announcement that Davis will not play and that Palmer is ruled out, McDermott also announced that defensive tackle DaQuan Jones will be out on Sunday due to a calf injury, and linebacker Shaq Thompson, with a hamstring issue, is also out for the Chiefs’ showdown.
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