'Like Final Destination': Bills RB Nyheim Hines Opens Up About Injury, Rehab

Western New York temperatures are expected to dip to 37 degrees on Wednesday night, peaking no higher than 48 as its Buffalo Bills prepare for a crucial interconference showdown on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles (4:25 p.m. ET, CBS). 

Nyheim Hines used to detest the cold Wednesday practices upon his introduction to Bills football last season. Now, he'd give anything to layer up and take the field.

“I’ll never take a Wednesday practice for granted again,” Hines said in a profile by Zak Keefer of The Athletic. "I never took football for granted, truly, but after this, I know what this game means to me. I’d do anything to be back right now.”

"This" is Hines' continued rehab from a jet ski accident that ended in a devastating injury that will keep him out of the Bills' ongoing season. Hines embarked on an emotional account of the incident to Keefer, detailing that he had no intentions of taking off a jet ski on that July afternoon while celebrating a holiday weekend wih friends in North Carolina. Two days before Independence Day, he had simply made a short trip to refuel the Sea-Doo when fate intervened. 

“You know what I tell people?” I literally tell people my life is like that movie ‘Final Destination,'" Hines said, referencing the horror film franchise where characters fall victim to increasingly convoluted demises said to be orchestrated by death itself. "Honestly, there were times I just wanted to scream and cry. It was just rehab, man, but it was hard as hell.”