THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jason Peters rejoined his Buffalo teammates for the first time since ending an off-season holdout, and proclaimed his intention to play this weekend.

"Yeah, I'm 100 per cent ready to go and glad to be back," the Pro Bowl left tackle said after the team held a walkthrough a day after a season-opening 34-10 win over Seattle. Though Peters hasn't played a game since Dec. 23, and missed all off-season practices including training camp, he said he plans to be ready for Buffalo's game at Jacksonville on Sunday.

That remains to be seen.

Coach Dick Jauron said that while Peters passed the team's physical and arrived in very good shape, it's too early to determine when the player will be added to the active roster.

"Jason is planning to play, but we won't know that until we see him practice," said Jauron. "Playing a game is not the same as conditioning to come to camp. So we have to make sure that when we do activate him that he is ready to go football-wise, and we don't do that too soon."

The Bills have until Sept. 20, the day before they host Oakland, to activate Peters after the NFL granted the team a two-week roster exemption. There's nothing preventing Buffalo from activating him earlier.

Peters expressed little regret over holding out to force the Bills to renegotiate the final three years of his contract. Peters wants a raise because he is the team's third-highest paid offensive linemen and set to make a base salary of US$3.25 million, considered low for a player at such a prominent position.