Insider Reveals; Bills Plan to Cut Ties With Veteran RB in $4.6 Million Move
The Buffalo Bills are planning more moves toward working on their compensation cap burden, with an insider detailing that the team will be cutting ties with veteran running back Nyheim Hines in a move expected to free close to $4.6 million.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on March 3 that the Bills wanted to release Hines later in the week. The running back and kick return expert missed the whole 2023 season in the wake of experiencing a torn upper leg tendon in an offseason drifting accident, however wanted to get back to the team for the approaching season.
The move leaves the Bills with a largely empty backfield, leading to speculation that the team will add another veteran through free agency.
Bills Dealing with Cap Deficiency The Bills were more than $40 million over the compensation cap as the new league drew nearer, yet have now made somewhat more space with the normal arrival of Hines and an agreement rebuild for hostile lineman Connor McGovern that opened up near $3.7 million of room.
Hines had confronted a dubious future with the Bills after his July accident, which left him with a season-finishing injury. A short time later, Hines’ representative common an enigmatic post on X that seemed to get down in the team for exchanges on what might befall the running back’s salary.
“Difficulty uncovers character,” specialist Ed Wasielewski believes. “Everybody has a decision to approach others with deference and pride. It’s noteworthy when a representative is harmed to perceive how a team deals with its own. I will keep on accepting that individuals will make the best decision when awful things happen to their own.”
Yet, Hines expressed later in the season that he would have liked to return to the Bills in 2024. “They treated me right by the day’s end and they dealt with it and I’m an individual from the Buffalo Bills and I anticipate returning there the following year and procuring the option to win,” he said in an interview with The Athletic.
Hines had one of the most noteworthy exhibitions of the 2022 season, returning two opening shots for scores in a season-finale prevail upon the New Britain Loyalists. The close to home game occurred only days after Damar Hamlin’s on-field breakdown.
Bills Need Backfield Help With Hines released, the Bills will be down to only one running back under contract for the approaching season — third-year champion James Cook. The team got a triplet of veterans to part conveyed behind Cook, yet each of the three — Ty Johnson, Latavius Murray, and Leonard Fournette — are made a beeline with the expectation of complimentary organization.
Matt Bove, sports chief for Buffalo’s WKBW, predicted that the Bills could make a run at veteran Ezekiel Elliott, who he saw as a reasonable addition for the cap-lashed team.
“I truly think Ezekiel Elliott appears to make sense for the Bison Bills,” Bove said. “At the point when you hear his name, I think you promptly go, ‘How could the Bills invest huge energy cash on a running back out of his heyday.’ He won’t cost you big-time cash. I figure Ezekiel Elliott could be had for $2, $3 million dollars every year.”
