LifetimeBillsFan
07-30-2005, 06:01 AM
There were a number of Bills fans who were clamoring for the Bills to draft Ben Wilkerson, the center out of LSU, on draft day who were unhappy about the Bills not taking Wilkerson instead of D.Preston and questioned why the Bills made no effort to sign Wilkerson as a UDFA after he went undrafted.
This may explain why the Bills made no effort to get Wilkerson:
"LSU's Ben Wilkerson, considered one of the nation's premier college centers before suffering a knee injury last October, failed his NFL physical and was placed on the Bengals' active/non-football injury list Friday....
...Wilkerson was injured on the final play of LSU's 24-7 win over Vanderbilt last Oct. 30 when the tendon that runs across his left kneecap ripped. The knee required two operations -- one to fix the tendon and insert a protective wire, another to remove the wire...."
(URL: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2120008&CMP=OTC-DT9705204233 )
This may explain why the Bills made no effort to get Wilkerson:
"LSU's Ben Wilkerson, considered one of the nation's premier college centers before suffering a knee injury last October, failed his NFL physical and was placed on the Bengals' active/non-football injury list Friday....
...Wilkerson was injured on the final play of LSU's 24-7 win over Vanderbilt last Oct. 30 when the tendon that runs across his left kneecap ripped. The knee required two operations -- one to fix the tendon and insert a protective wire, another to remove the wire...."
(URL: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2120008&CMP=OTC-DT9705204233 )