The primary-round cornerback’s ACL is unbroken, according to Fox Sports’ Jordan Schultz, and NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo report the Kentucky product suffered an LCL sprain. Hairston is anticipated to be out for not less than a number of weeks, however the Payments prevented the worst-case state of affairs right here.
Buffalo views Hairston as more likely to be prepared for Week 1, Schultz adds. This can be a break for the Payments, who primarily based their offseason cornerback plan on Hairston. The workforce didn’t re-sign Rasul Douglas and licensed a Christian Benford extension — one which quickly turned paired with Hairston’s rookie contract. The workforce additionally traded Kaiir Elam, who had not panned out as a 2022 first-round selection.
Douglas stays a free agent, not signing with the Dolphins regardless of a number of cases of reported negotiations emerging. Miami has since signed Jack Jones and Mike Hilton. Douglas remaining out there represents an attention-grabbing choice for the Payments, but when Hairston is to be again by Week 1 or shortly earlier than that time, they might choose to stay with their present depth chart. The workforce additionally introduced again Tre’Davious White and Dane Jackson this offseason.
The knee damage comes after the Payments received word of a civil suit alleging Hairston sexually assaulted a lady as a freshman at Kentucky. Hairston, 22 subsequent week, denied the allegation.
“That is one thing I’ve been coping with since I used to be 17,” Hairston stated, via Pro Football Talk’s Michael David Smith. “It’s been 4 years now, and I went by this entire course of with the police, they went by a radical investigation, and I used to be exonerated from that. The College of Kentucky did a radical investigation, I used to be exonerated from that as effectively. And I volunteered to do a number of polygraphs as a result of I used to be decided to get my fact on the market, as a result of I had nothing to cover. I used to be an open guide.
“The Payments have been by my facet from the beginning as a result of they did their very own thorough investigation. The those who know the reality know, and people are the folks I’m sticking by they usually’re sticking by me.”
Brandon Beane beforehand instructed the Payments carried out thorough analysis on this matter, indicating he believed the cornerback was falsely accused of this crime. Within the go well with, the unnamed lady alleges that Hairston sexually assaulted her in her dorm room on March 25, 2021. The go well with alleges Hairston eliminated the lady’s pajamas, after she had indicated she was drained and bored with sexual activity, and assaulted her. The lady filed a police report on the time, based on Bardahl and Graham, and went by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner examination at a hospital.
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