Prior to the Buffalo Bills trading away linebacker Reggie Ragland on Monday, multiple reports had circulated throughout the summer suggesting that Ragland was slow in recovering from the knee injury that kept him him out for all of the 2016 season. On Tuesday, Bills head coach Sean McDermott addressed the team’s reasoning for parting with Ragland.
"It was more what Preston Brown did," McDermott said. "Preston Brown has had a great camp. He has proven himself as a starting middle linebacker for us. I like the way the defense is playing. So it's more of what Preston did rather than what Reggie didn't do.