Bills Place Taylor Rapp on Injured Reserve

The Buffalo Bills will place starting safety Taylor Rapp on injured reserve with a knee injury, and he will not play Sunday at Carolina, costing him at least four games with an earliest possible return of Nov. 20. Coach Sean McDermott said Rapp dealt with the knee since training camp and aggravated it in the Week 6 loss to the Falcons after trying to play through it for six-plus weeks; Rapp was held out of Wednesday practice while the injury was evaluated. Rapp’s move deepens a thin safety group — Damar Hamlin and Wande Owens are already on IR — leaving Cole Bishop, Sam Franklin and rookie Jordan Hancock as the current healthy options, with veteran Jordan Poyer (on the practice squad) among candidates to start. The Bills are also managing other injuries, including DT DaQuan Jones and WR Joshua Palmer, and have TE Dalton Kincaid and LBs Terrel Bernard and Matt Milano listed as questionable after limited practice.