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Allen opens Highmark with five TDs. Bills 41, Lions 31.
First regular-season game at the new Highmark Stadium. Buffalo 2-0. Detroit 1-1. Josh Allen ridiculous. Jared Goff and Amon-Ra St. Brown kept the Lions in it through the air — the defence was not a factor. Three names to watch on next week’s injury report.
Buffalo Bills 41, Detroit Lions 31 — the first regular-season kickoff in the new Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park. The Bills are 2-0. The Lions fall to 1-1. Source: Bills.com; ESPN; CBS Sports.
Josh Allen — ridiculous
Twenty of 31 for 248 passing yards and three touchdown passes. About 69 rushing yards (Bills.com / Sportsnet final framing; ESPN and CBS had him at 72) and two rushing scores. That is five total touchdowns on the night he opened the building. Source: Bills.com; Sportsnet; ESPN / CBS Sports box.
James Cook sealed it on the ground: about 134–135 rushing yards and a touchdown (CBS Sports 134; Statz 135) — the late score that closed the door. Source: CBS Sports; Statz / box.
Lions fought through the air
Jared Goff: 26 of 38, 327 yards, four touchdown passes. Amon-Ra St. Brown: nine catches, 142 yards, two scores. Jahmyr Gibbs a touchdown catch. Sam LaPorta a touchdown. Admirable offense on the road against a Bills team that still won by ten. Desk colour: defence wasn’t a factor — Detroit could not get stops when it needed them. Source: Bills.com; ESPN; CBS Sports.
Pre-game line already known: Blake Miller (knee) and Christian Mahogany (hip) were OUT for Detroit. The Lions played without those two offensive-line starters. Source: ESPN; Reuters / Field Level Media.
Injury watch — monitoring, not Week 3 OUT calls
Three names Anthony flagged as issues for next week. Frame them as ruled out of this TNF and names to watch on the Week 3 report. Status for Week 3 is not yet official. No invented diagnoses beyond the sourced body part.
Ed Oliver (BUF DT) — hip in warmups; ruled OUT / inactive before kickoff. Source: Bills PR; Reuters / Field Level Media; Bills.com.
DJ Moore (BUF WR) — left shoulder after an end-zone landing late in the second quarter; initially questionable, then OUT after halftime (Judy Battista / ESPN via TSN). No catch before he exited. Week 1: five receptions, 100 yards, a touchdown against the Texans. Source: Battista / TSN; ESPN recap.
Avonte Maddox (DET DB) — foot (ESPN: right foot) after a collision with Chuck Clark in the end zone in the second quarter; carted; ruled out for the rest of the game. Source: ESPN Woodyard / ESPN recap.
Desk line: Oliver, Moore and Maddox are the three to watch when the next injury report posts. Do not stamp them OUT for Week 3 from this item.
What this item is not
No invented Week 3 OUT designations. No return timelines. No diagnoses beyond the sourced body part. Paid sit/starts stay on the weekly.
Sources: Bills.com final score / recap (Allen 248/3 pass, 69 rush / 2 rush TD; Cook; Goff 327/4; St. Brown 9/142/2); Sportsnet; ESPN recap / box (Allen rush also listed 72; Maddox right foot; Moore shoulder; Miller/Mahogany OUT); CBS Sports box (Cook 134; Allen rush 72); Statz (Cook 135; Allen rush 69); Bills PR / Bills.com / Reuters–Field Level Media on Oliver hip inactive; Judy Battista / TSN on Moore left shoulder Q then OUT, Week 1 5/100/TD, no catch vs DET; ESPN Woodyard / ESPN on Maddox carted, ruled out rest of game. Desk colour labelled as such.