After their starting quarterback Josh Allen injured his elbow against Houston Texans on Sunday, Buffalo Bills decided they won’t go with his backup Nathan Peterman. Instead, Bills’ coach Sean McDermott confirmed that recently signed veteran Derek Anderson would start in Week 7 game against the Indianapolis Colts.
“Derek is a guy that I’ve been around in Carolina,” – McDermott told reporters. “He brings experience, leadership presence to the table and he’s worked hard the last week, week and a half, to get up to speed.”
Josh Allen suffered an elbow sprain in the third quarter of Sunday’s game, and he is reportedly set to miss “multiple weeks” recovering. The good thing for the Bills is that Allen won’t have to undergo surgery.
While Nathan Peterman started the 2018 season as the Bills’ starting quarterback, he was benched in the opener against Baltimore Ravens after throwing two interceptions. Peterman continued to be interception-prone after he replaced Allen on Sunday, throwing two interceptions in the closing minutes of the game.
Bills are hoping that a veteran like Derek Anderson will be more careful with the ball and provide the team’s offense with badly needed stability although he has 60-60 touchdowns to interception ratio. Anderson played 75 games (47 as a starter) since entering the NFL in 2005 and has completed 867 out of 1,604 passes for 10,413 yards.
