Kicker · Buffalo Bills

Tyler Bass

No. 16 · 7th season

Bass is at camp. He just hasn't kicked yet.

The Bills' special teams coordinator says Tyler Bass is fine. Which is the kind of thing you say when people are starting to ask.

Last season was a hard one for Bass. He missed time, and that absence has a way of following a player into the next year — into every practice, every rep, every moment the cameras are pointed his way. Now camp is open, and Bass has been there, present and working. He just hasn't put a ball in the air yet, not in any setting anyone outside the building can see.

That detail travels. A kicker at training camp who hasn't kicked is a small fact that carries a lot of noise, and the coordinator's reassurance — offered unprompted, it seems — suggests the Bills are aware of that noise.

What happens the first time Bass lines up and swings through a kick, in front of the team and the cameras, is its own moment. The answer to every question is probably one made field goal away.

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