For a minute there, it looked like the Buffalo Bills might end up starting their intended backup running back in games that matter this season. As starter James Cook executed a “hold-in” while at training camp, refusing to practice until his agent and general manager Brandon Beane agreed upon a new contract, there was plenty of attention turned to the team’s RB2.

While that young man — who is the same age as Cook even though they were drafted two years apart — played a role on the 2024 team as a rookie, there were definite divides among people in the know as to whether they thought he could be “the man” in the offensive backfield rather than a part of something special. After Cook and the Bills agreed on a four-year extension, however, the conversations about who would start at running ba

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