Byrd waiting until next week
Bills rookie safety Jairus Byrd said he will know more about his sore groin and hernia area next week.
Byrd visited a specialist in Philadelphia on Monday in what coach Dick Jauron said was a previously scheduled checkup on his abdomen. Byrd underwent surgery to repair a sports hernia in July. Byrd has been feeling some discomfort in the area and has had a sore groin the past couple weeks.
"I'm feeling all right; I'll be fine," Byrd said Tuesday in the locker room. "It’s been a couple weeks that it’s been nagging at me. The trainers have done a good job getting me through and prepared to go to games. I'm excited we have a bye week so I can try to get healthy and get back on track."
Byrd, who has seven interceptions already this season, did not want to get specific about what the specialist did.
"I won’t go into detail," he said. "He did something and we’ll see how it goes. They’ve kind of said sometimes you get scar tissue built up in there. It could be a lot of things. From what he did, well know more about how I react and what's going on as far as pain next week."
Does Byrd think he could miss some games?
"I wouldn’t go that far," he said. "We’ll see. Next week we’ll know more."
---Mark Gaughan
