From hip injury to personal reasons to knee injury to injured reserve, Bills receiver Percy Harvin has had a confusing few weeks. In the coming days, all confusion will be removed.
Per multiple reports, Harvin will have knee surgery this week.
It will end his season, according to the reports, eliminating the possibility that Harvin will be released by the Bills and will join another team for the stretch run. Via Adam Schefter of ESPN, Harvin fully intends to resume his career in 2016.
With Harvin, of course, everything is subject to change. The one constant in the past few years is that he hasn’t done anything to live up to the potential that made him the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year in 2009 and, in the early weeks of the 2012 season, an outside-the-box league MVP candidate. Apart from a few flashes in Super Bowl XLVIII (where he could have been named MVP of the game but for the dominance of the defense), Harvin has been more tease than factor.
After being abruptly traded last year by the Seahawks to the Jets, Harvin followed coach Rex Ryan to Buffalo. Some repair work will be necessary to maintain that relationship, because Harvin (we’re told) wasn’t happy with the characterization that he missed the game against the Jaguars in London for personal reasons.
It’s still not clear how a nagging hip injury morphed into knee surgery without Harvin practicing or playing, but it doesn’t matter. He’s done for the year. Come next year, the question becomes who’ll take a chance on him?