![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/nfl-star-ruled-out-for-season-after-freak-jet-ski-accident-before-training-camp/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_nyheim-hines.jpg&description=Buffalo Bills running back Nyheim Hines sustained a season-ending knee injury in a freak jet ski accident that occurred just before he was supposed to report for 2023 NFL training camp. Buffalo Bills running back Nyheim Hines suffered a freak injury to his knee after a jet ski struck him in a vacation accident just before the deadline to report to team training camp. He will miss the entire 2023 NFL season. Details of the incident, first reported by NFL Network, remain sparing. The location and date of the incident have not been announced. But it is believed that Hines was sitting stationary on his jet ski when struck by the moving watercraft. His injuries are not considered life-threatening. Hines, 26, was readying to join Buffalo for training camp on Wednesday in Rochester, New York, before the off-field setback. The Bills expected to use him in a multi-faceted role in 2023 with both kick return and running back duties in store. The NC State product was remarkably durable as a pro before this incident. Despite a smaller-than-average 5-foot-9 frame at a physical position, he played 81 regular season games in five years, racking up 2,980 yards from scrimmage between the Indianapolis Colts and Bills. He has also scored four career special teams touchdowns — two as a punt returner and two last year as a kick returner. One of those kick return scores came on the first play after the Bills returned to action after Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field. A fourth-round draft pick in 2018, Hines took on the undersized pass-catching running back role made famous earlier in the 2000s by Darren Sproles. In fact, Hines compared himself at times to the former Philadelphia Eagles star. "Kind of like the Darren Sproles of [then-Colts coach Frank] Reich's offence," Hines said of his expected role as a rookie. "He told me he's gonna move me all over the field, run the ball, catch the ball. Hopefully I have some return opportunities." In 2020, already established in the){kind=link}
Buffalo Bills running back Nyheim Hines sustained a season-ending knee injury in a freak jet ski accident that occurred just before he was supposed to report for 2023 NFL training camp.
Buffalo Bills running back Nyheim Hines suffered a freak injury to his knee after a jet ski struck him in a vacation accident just before the deadline to report to team training camp. He will miss the entire 2023 NFL season.
Details of the incident, first reported by NFL Network, remain sparing. The location and date of the incident have not been announced.
But it is believed that Hines was sitting stationary on his jet ski when struck by the moving watercraft. His injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Hines, 26, was readying to join Buffalo for training camp on Wednesday in Rochester, New York, before the off-field setback. The Bills expected to use him in a multi-faceted role in 2023 with both kick return and running back duties in store.