Bills' Taylor focusing on rehabbing injury amid contract limbo

Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor remains uncertain about his status with the team, ahead of free agency.

The Bills face a colossally important decision regarding Taylor ahead of the 2017 season. If Taylor remains on the roster after March 11, the Bills will owe him $30.75 million for the year. Taylor would be paid $12 million in base salary, granted a $15.5-million option bonus and $3.25 million of his 2018 salary would be fully guaranteed, if the Bills opt to keep him on board.

If the Bills opt to release Taylor before March 11, they'd incur nothing more than a $2.85-million cap hit.

Entering the most important offseason of his career, Taylor said he's focusing on rehabbing a lingering groin injury, although he said if he were healthy, his attention would solely be focused on his impending contract scenario.

"My focus is not on the contract situation or what's gonna happen. It's more just being healthy," Taylor said Friday on WGR 550. "The thing that keeps my mind off of it is rehabbing (from January groin surgery). If I didn't have to rehab, I'd probably be thinking about (the contract situation) all the time."

Taylor also ripped into local media for treating him unfairly during the 7-9 season.

"I feel like it's a very negative group. For their reasons, winning hasn't been a tradition around there," Taylor said on ESPN Radio with Stephen A. Smith. "I understand they (are) fed up with it, they want a team to get to the playoffs. But I also felt that they were attacking the wrong things at the wrong time. It wasn't fair to me at the time, but this game isn't fair. I could have carried it a different way looking back on it, but I think that also sparked some things as far as my teammates, to see me react the way I did, I definitely think it made them look at me a different way, too."

Taylor said the team's offense came under attack and said the media should've considered that the Bills were without Sammy Watkins for eight games due to numerous injuries.

"I was more so questioning, were they really watching the film, or were they just trying to put numbers together and taking questions from those numbers versus actually just breaking down film? Like I said, I was without Sammy. That's not an excuse. Guys go without their top receivers a lot. But also take that into consideration as well, too."