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Bills DeskThe Wire

Three Bills starting tackles are questionable for Monday night at Minnesota

Spencer Brown, Alec Anderson and Dion Dawkins all carry questionable tags as the top-seeded Bills head to Minnesota.

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By Bills Desk, Pigskin NightlyNov 7, 1:27 PM ET2 min read

Three starting tackles are questionable for Monday night: Spencer Brown (back), Alec Anderson (ankle) and Dion Dawkins (ribs). That is the line the Bills lean on as the league's top-ranked pass offense travels to Minnesota at 6-1.

What they're reporting

Buffalo Rumblings tracked the injury room in Buffalo Bills injury report: Dion Dawkins, Alec Anderson still out. The team's own site covered the left tackle in Bills LT Dion Dawkins trying to "push through" rib injury for Week 9 against Vikings.

ESPN has a clip titled How the Bills are planning with illnesses on the OL. It also ran Bills prepare for Vikings' blitz-heavy defense.

On the other sideline, ESPN's Kevin Seifert reported Vikings to start QB Carson Wentz against Bills with Kyler Murray ruled out.

What our numbers add

The Bills are second in the league in offensive EPA per play at 0.173. EPA, or expected points added, measures how much each snap moves the scoreboard compared with an average snap. Their success rate is 49 percent. They rank first in pass offense and fifth in rush offense, so the protection up front feeds both.

The points are there: 233 scored against 181 allowed, a difference of 52. A line missing tackles has to protect the ball and the quarterback against a defense that ESPN's headline calls the hardest to score on. That is where the lens matters. An explosive play that stretches the field and a throw that gets away both come out of the same pocket, and a broken pocket raises the odds of the second kind.

The defense gives Buffalo less margin. It allows 0.063 EPA per play, which ranks 23rd, and opponents succeed on 46 percent of snaps. The pass defense is 24th and the run defense 17th.

DJ Moore is also questionable with a shoulder injury. Joshua Palmer (hamstring) and Keon Coleman (shoulder) are listed questionable too, though neither is a listed starter.

The record keeps the cushion. Buffalo is the No. 1 seed in the conference, 3-0 on the road, on a three-game winning streak, and a game and a half clear of the Patriots at 5-3.

Next up

The Bills play at the Minnesota Vikings on Monday, Nov. 9, at 8:15 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN. Week 9 is the next test for the Buffalo line, and the final injury designations will settle who starts at tackle.

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