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Is Matt Prater injured? What we know about Bills kicker's quad problem for playoffs
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The last thing any team wants to worry about heading into the playoffs is its kicker.
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The Buffalo Bills have at least a bit of reason to worry about Matt Prater amid an injury-impacted end of the regular season.
The Bills did bring Matthew Wright onto the practice squad in the lead-up to the Wild Card Round against the Jaguars .
But the Bills didn't elevate Wright from the practice squad, which means Prater will be kicking on Sunday.
The hope is that everything is OK.
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Is Matt Prater injured?
Prater appears to be back to health, but he has been battling an injury.
He hurt his right quadriceps and had to miss Weeks 16 and 17. Michael Badgley kicked in those two weeks for the Bills, but a couple of missed attempts meant that the Bills let him go.
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Prater was back for Week 18, but he got hurt on a kickoff, and he didn't play in the second half. The Bills went for 2 on their touchdowns, and their punter handled kickoff duties.
Leading into the playoffs, Prater didn't practice Wednesday, then he practiced Thursday. The Bills gave him a planned day off Friday.
They don't really have an option now that they haven't called Wright up from the practice squad. It's Prater or no placekicker at this point.
So Prater will be active for Sunday's game and likely deployed mostly as normal, although it wouldn't be shocking if the Bills took him off kickoff duties. It's also not clear if his usual long-distance leg will be compromised at all.
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And the last thing Buffalo needs is for him to re-aggravate it again in the middle of a postseason game.
