Buffalo Rumblings
The Buffalo Bills may not have made any moves at the 2025 NFL trade deadline, but they did make some transactions relating to their practice squad on Tuesday. The Bills announced that they released two players from the practice squad: linebacker Jimmy Ciarlo and wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson.
Ciarlo, 24, has appeared in one game this season, playing 13 special teams snaps after being signed to the 53-man roster from the practice squad before Buffalo’s 23-20 loss to the New England Patriots. He did not appear on the stat sheet aside from those snaps played. Buffalo waived Ciarlo on October 14 before re-signing him to the practice squad on October 16.
The West Point graduate joined the Bills in the summertime after having spent the 2024 season on the New York Jets’ practice squad. He appeared in three preseason games for the Bills, totaling 11 tackles and one fumble recovery.
Wilkerson, 28, is a veteran wideout who signed with Buffalo this offseason. He has nine professional games under his belt, and he has six catches for 60 yards in regular-season action. He most recently played with the Las Vegas Raiders, playing in five games between the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
He entered the league as an undrafted free agent after the 2020 NFL Draft, signing with the Tennessee Titans. He was waived without appearing in a regular-season game, but joined the New England Patriots thereafter. He played in four games across the 2020 and 2021 seasons with the Patriots. In three exhibition games with Buffalo this summer, Wilkerson caught seven of the nine passes thrown his way for a total of 91 yards.
In addition to the releases, the Bills reportedly brought in four players for workouts, and three of them should be familiar names. Defensive ends Kingsley Jonathan and Casey Toohill, as well as defensive back Te’Cory Couch, all spent time with the Bills over the last few seasons, and all came in for a workout on November 4.
The fourth player brought in for a workout on Tuesday was free-agent defensive end Garrett Nelson.
Jonathan, 27, played in 15 games for the Bills from 2022-2024. He played 13 of those games in 2023, when he was a mainstay on special teams. He appeared on 52% of the team’s special teams snaps that season. He has six ttoal tackles and three quarterback hits as a member of the Bills. He also played briefly for the Chicago Bears, totaling four tackles in five games in the Windy City.
Toohill, 29, was a seventh-round draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2019 NFL Draft. He spent the 2024 season with Buffalo, totaling 20 tackles, two tackles for loss, and one sack in 14 games. He appeared on 28% of Buffalo’s defensive snaps and 37% of their special teams snaps. For his career, he has 100 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 21 quarterback hits, and four fumble recoveries in 71 games.
Neither Couch, 26, nor Nelson, 25, has appeared in a...
