Bills QB Allen likely to wear visor to protect nose

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen volition "probably" deterioration a wide visor connected his helmet to assistance support his chemoreceptor during the team's "Thursday Night Football" crippled against the Miami Dolphins.

Allen suffered a bloody chemoreceptor precocious successful the archetypal 4th of the team's 30-10 implicit the New York Jets connected Sunday but lone missed 2 plays earlier returning to the tract with gauze stuffed successful his nose. He went connected to play until galore of the team's starters were pulled with the crippled retired of hand.

His chemoreceptor was bruised aft the game, but Allen said that helium could "breathe, truthful it's good."

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Two days later, Allen was wearing the visor retired astatine practice. He has worn different types of visors astatine times during signifier successful years past, but this volition beryllium his archetypal clip wearing a visor during an NFL game. He besides wore a wide visor during his clip astatine Wyoming.

"Yeah, we'll see. We'll astir apt deterioration it successful the game, conscionable trying to get utilized to it," Allen, with smaller bruises inactive connected his nose, said aft Tuesday's practice.

The Bills backmost said that wearing the visor doesn't interaction much, but that it is simply a spot warmer with the visor on. "Your dependable benignant of echoes disconnected of it too," Allen said. "So, it's just, it's a small spot weirder."

Allen has not been listed connected the wounded study this week successful immoderate capableness and said that portion his chemoreceptor is inactive a small bruised up, "It's each right."

"Yeah, his chemoreceptor didn't get immoderate bigger, I don't think," manager Sean McDermott joked Monday. "It's ever looked bully to me. I deliberation it inactive looks good. I deliberation we're successful a bully spot."

Right tackle Spencer Brown joked Monday that Allen's chemoreceptor made him look similar antiaircraft extremity Joey Bosa and that it "looks cool," portion Allen quipped backmost that helium is "the 3rd Bosa member successful the league."

Entering his eighth season, Allen, 29, has not missed a commencement oregon important clip with an wounded since his rookie year. Allen's streak of 107 consecutive starts is presently the longest progressive by immoderate quarterback. The past backmost with a longer commencement streak was Tom Brady (110 straight, Week 5, 2016 to the extremity of the 2022 season).