DJ Moore Ruled Out With Shoulder Injury as Bills Cruise Against Lions
Mike Garafolo reported: 'The #Bills have ruled out WR DJ Moore with a shoulder injury.'
If you fired up in your fantasy lineup or hammered his over on receiving yards for Thursday Night Football, I have terrible news. The have officially ruled out their star wide receiver for the rest of the night with a shoulder injury.
According to NFL Network's Mike Garafolo, Moore is done for the evening after landing hard on his left shoulder while trying to make a play in the end zone during the second quarter.
Catching a pass in the end zone is supposed to end with a spike, not a one-way ticket to the locker room with the training staff.
The timing is brutal because Moore was already looking like the steal of the offseason for Buffalo. He torched the in Week 1, racking up 100 yards and a touchdown on just five catches in a 36-31 shootout win.
He was brought in to be the exact kind of reliable target this offense desperately needed after posting 682 yards and six scores during his final year with the .
The good news for the is that they are currently cruising. Buffalo holds a comfortable 27-10 lead over the Detroit Lions, meaning they have zero reason to rush their shiny new weapon back onto the field and risk turning a stinger into a season-altering disaster.
For the betting crowd, this is the kind of mid-game bad beat that ruins a perfectly good Thursday night. Any live lines or player props tied to Moore are officially dead in the water.
The real stakes here are about what happens next week. Buffalo's offense looks entirely different when Moore is stretching the field, and oddsmakers will absolutely adjust the ' future lines if this shoulder issue lingers.
We will have to wait for the postgame press conference to find out if this is just a precautionary shutdown in a blowout or a legitimate structural problem. Until then, Buffalo will just have to rely on the rest of the roster to finish off Detroit.