Buffalo Rumblings
The Buffalo Bills have overhauled their secondary from a year ago, adding three draft choices and two free agents at the corner position alone to their existing group. They also allowed a veteran starter, Rasul Douglas, to leave via free agency.
With so many new faces—or, in the case of Dane Jackson and Tre’Davious White, familiar faces brought back after stints elsewhere—it’s hard to figure out the direction of the cornerback room. Will the team rely on the young players they added via the draft? Will injuries sustained during training camp lead the Bills to keep different players than they’d have planned? How open, exactly, are the “tryouts” for spots on the roster?
In today’s installment of our “90 players in 90 days” series, we discuss a player who broke through last season, but now finds his spot on the 2025 team to be tenuous at best.
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Name: Ja’Marcus Ingram
Number: 46
Position: CB
Height/Weight: 6’2”, 190 pounds
Age: 27 (28 on 9/2/2025)
Experience/Draft: 2; signed with Buffalo following the 2022 NFL Draft
College: Buffalo
Acquired: UDFA signing
Financial situation (per Spotrac): Ingram enters the final year of his two-year contract. The total worth of the deal is $1,952,500. For the 2025 season, he carries a cap hit of $1,033,750 if he makes the 53-man roster. Buffalo will be on the hook for a dead-cap charge of $3,750 if he’s released.
2024 Recap: For the first time in his career, Ingram made the 53-man roster out of camp, and he was an immediate contributor on both defense and special teams. After slot corner Taron Johnson broke his forearm in the season opener, Ingram came in as the dime cornerback while Cam Lewis took over in the slot for Johnson.
Ingram came up with a big pass breakup on the Cardinals’ final offensive play, knocking down a desperation heave from Kyler Murray on fourth down to preserve a 34-28 victory. The following week, Ingram had the best night of his career, intercepting Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa twice and returning one of those picks for a touchdown in a 31-10 beatdown at Miami.
Ingram played in all 17 regular-season games, as well as all three playoff games. He totaled 24 tackles, two tackles for loss, four pass breakups, two interceptions, and one quarterback hit in those games. In three playoff games, he played mostly on special teams, appearing on only four defensive snaps. He totaled four tackles.
Positional outlook: Ingram is among 12 corners on the current roster. Tre’Davious White, Maxwell Hairston, Christian Benford, Cam Lewis, Taron Johnson, Te’Cory Couch, Jordan Hancock, Dorian Strong, Daequan Hardy, Dane Jackson, and Brandon Codrington are the others.
2025 Offseason: Ingram is healthy and participating in training camp thus far. He’s listed behind White and Hairston, respectively, on the team’s first depth chart.
2025 Season outlook: Ingram was a core special teams player last season, playing on nearly two-thirds of the snaps in that phase of the game. Only Quintin Morris and Reggie Gilliam...
