Outside Linebacker · Buffalo Bills

Michael Hoecht

No. 55 · 7th season

Seven months out, Hoecht is already telling people he'll be ready

A torn Achilles is one of those injuries that doesn't negotiate. It takes what it takes, and it doesn't care about your timeline.

Michael Hoecht plays edge rusher for the Buffalo Bills — a position built on explosion, on the first step, on the exact thing an Achilles tear takes away. He went down more than seven months ago, and that clock has been running ever since.

Now he's saying he'll be ready for training camp. Not hoping. Not aiming. Ready.

For a player coming back from that kind of injury, confidence isn't just attitude — it's information. The body either cooperates or it doesn't, and Hoecht seems to believe his is cooperating.

Training camp will be the real answer. But the fact that he's making the call at all says something.

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