Buffalo Rumblings
At Monday’s training camp practice, Buffalo Bills linebacker Baylon Spector left the field during team drills with a trainer and a slight limp. It was diagnosed as a calf injury and Spector, who had been dealing with calf injuries since at least the final weeks of the 2024 season, looked very frustrated as he walked off.
It turns out he was right to be frustrated, as the team released the veteran on Wednesday and signed former New York Jets UDFA Jimmy Ciarlo out of Army. He spent 2024 on IR with the Jets.
Spector was placed on the waived/injured list, so when he presumably clears the waiver wire around the league, he will revert back to Buffalo’s injured reserve. With this type of short-term injury, it’s unlikely he stays on IR for the entire season. Spector is in the last year of his contract, so it is likely they will release him with an injury settlement and he will be free to sign elsewhere when healthy. He could even rejoin the Bills down the line in the 2025 season.
Originally a seventh-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, Spector has played 26 games for the Bills including four starts in 2024 with an injury-depleted corps. Spector himself succumbed to that injury bug, something that really plagued him his entire career. Availability is the best ability, unfortunately.
The move solidifies Joe Andreesen’s spot not only on the roster but as an every-week player as a reserve linebacker and special teamer.
