ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — With NFL cut-down day approaching, Bills receiver Isaiah McKenzie confronts his uncertain future each time he takes a seat at his locker.
Gathered before him is a large plastic tub of belongings, two plastic bags of clothes stacked in a laundry bin, and an oversized stereo boom box, accounting for essentially all the worldly possessions McKenzie brought to Buffalo. Though the Bills put McKenzie up in a perfectly good hotel, the third-year player prefers to have his items close at hand.
To McKenzie, everything he has stashed amid a couple of red chairs in the middle of the floor represents a physical reminder of the challenges of keeping his job after Buffalo retooled its receivers by adding Cole Beasley, John Brown and Andre Roberts in free agency.