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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Bills signed first-round pick Sammy Watkins to his rookie contract Wednesday. The Bills announced the signing shortly after the teams first session of organized team activities. "Its great just to put all that behind me, just to know you have financial stability," Watkins said. "Now its just all football. Every day I have to come in and worry about football and my plays and my job and just work out there." Buffalo is counting on Watkins to immediately step into the starting lineup for a team that has not been to the playoffs since 1999, the NFLs longest current drought. The Bills moved up five spots in the draft in a trade with the Cleveland Browns to select Watkins fourth overall. The 6-foot-1, 211-pound wideout is known for his playmaking abilities and has tremendous speed and hands. Wednesday was Watkins first official practice with quarterback EJ Manuel and the rest of the offence. He lined up with the starting unit at receiver alongside fellow off-season acquisition Mike Williams. Watkins and Manuel had a slow start to the session. An early pass intended for Watkins was off the mark and intercepted by cornerback Corey Graham. But the duo responded accordingly. The two later hooked up for receptions over the middle and down the left sideline. "Its coming along," Watkins said. "Weve got a lot to work on, a lot of different routes and schemes weve got to clean up a little bit. But its a process." Watkins will miss Buffalos remaining two sessions this week as he heads to Los Angeles to participate in the 2014 NFLPA Rookie Premiere. He made it clear he would prefer to be on the football field adjusting to life with the Bills. "I would rather stay here and get the connection with the quarterback. I dont want to fall behind," Watkins said. "Its kind of sad that I have to leave for three to four days and everybody has that two to three days ahead of me. 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Costa Rica followed up its wins over Uruguay and Italy by holding England to a dour 0-0 draw on Tuesday, enough to finish first in Group D.Paul Pogba scored a spectacular long-range goal as France took control of Group A with a 1-0 win over Holland. Manchester Uniteds world-record signing unleashed a dipping 30-yard strike in the first half to sink the Dutch at the Amsterdam Arena, inflicting Netherlands first World Cup qualifying loss since September 2001 - an unbeaten run of 33 matches.Pogba has found the net just once for United this season and his previous goal for France came in the Euro 2016 quarter-final victory over Iceland, which was his first international strike in almost two years. However, the £89m midfielder was helped by some generous goalkeeping by Maarten Stekelenburg as he netted his seventh goal for Les Bleus.With Dimitri Payet pulling the strings France dominated the early stages and got a first sight of goal after just four minutes. Pogba celebrates with his France team-mates However, Payets corner was headed wide by Raphael Varane, and shortly after Stekelenburg saved from Kevin Gameiro.The deadlock was broken in spectacular style by Pogba on the half-hour mark when Laurent Koscielny intercepted the ball on the halfway line and fed Payet, who played a square pass to Pogba.Pogba took a couple of steps forward, looked up and unleashed aa fierce shot which the diving Stekelenburg got a hand to but could not keep out.dddddddddddd.Payet then fancied a slice of the action and had a long-range effort saved, but France survived a scare just before half-time when a poor backpass from the West Ham midfielder allowed Vincent Janssen to move in on goal. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Janssens shot was blocked by Koscielny, and although the ball bounced onto the defenders hand, Hollands appeals for a penalty were waved away.Janssen came even closer to finding the target after the break when he rolled Varane in the area but lashed his shot into the side-netting.Pogba almost created a second for France when his ball over the top found Kevin Gameiro, who brought it down superbly but was unable to beat the onrushing Stekelenburg with Antoine Griezmann skying the rebound.Pogba then squandered the opportunity to notch his second when he headed Payets corner straight at Stekelenburg.France were grateful to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris for keeping out Memphis Depays late snap-shot to preserve the three points.You can watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the British Masters on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! ' ' '