The Buffalo Bills will have the rare chance to face the same player in back-to-back weeks as the team heads to Seattle to face the Seahawks in Week 8.
After a trade between the Seahawks and Tennessee Titans following Week 7, the Bills will go against linebacker Ernest Jones IV again after facing him against the Titans last week.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the Seahawks traded LB Jerome Baker and a fourth-round draft pick to the Titans for Jones.
In last week’s loss to the Bills, Jones posted five tackles and a pass defended. He appeared on the Bills’ “mic’d up” video of Josh Allen, as he and Allen were bickering back and forth after he made a touchdown-saving tackle on Allen.
Allen will see him again on Sunday. Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said Jones will see plenty of action against the Bills and that he will fill the middle linebacker role for Seattle, pushing former Bills linebacker Tyrel Dodson from middle to weakside linebacker.
So, Allen will be familiar with both of Seattle’s linebackers in Week 8. One he faced just last game and the other he went against in practice before this year.
Just last week, a similar situation took place in the NFL. Davante Adams lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 6 as a member of the Las Vegas Raiders, and then after being traded to the New York Jets, he lost again to the Steelers in Week 7.
Allen and the Bills are trying to provide Jones with a similar experience.