Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane spoke highly of wide receiver K.J. Hamler during a recent podcast appearance.
Promising prospects who quickly fizzle out of the NFL are a dime a dozen given the extreme variables that go into constructing a successful professional football career; countless prospects with immense ability and potential are selected in each NFL Draft, the vast majority of them never reaching their projected ceilings due to situation, injury, or a combination of several factors both in and out of their control.
K.J. Hamler—as of right now—falls into this unfortunate category. Selected in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft thanks to his speed and perceived positional versatility, the former Penn State Nittany Lion has struggled to make a consistent impact at the professional level, appearing in just 23 games for the Denver Broncos over his three seasons with the team. He caught 42 passes for 620 yards and three touchdowns, never playing a full season for the club.
Talent has never been Hamler’s issue—it’s been his availability. He appeared in just 13 games as a rookie, missing frequent time with a nagging hamstring injury. He showed signs of a year-two breakout before tearing his ACL early in the 2021 season, with hamstring injuries again plaguing his 2022 campaign.
“K.J. Hamler is here competing,” Beane said. “He had the injury bug there a little bit, trying to see, we’ve really worked on him seeing if we can armor his body a little bit, show the durability. You see the speed, you do watching these guys run out here run on air in phase two.
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