{"id":298571,"date":"2025-11-21T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:44:09","slug":"nfl-referee-adrian-hill-injury-head-official-leaves-bills-texans-with-non-contact-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298571\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL referee Adrian Hill injury: Head official leaves Bills-Texans with non-contact injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries occur every NFL game, but on Thursday night, it was an official who suffered the most serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Hill, the referee working the Thursday night game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a>, had to be carted off the field after suffering a non-contact injury. Hill is a seven-year official who led the crew, announcing all the penalties to the crowd and audience.<\/p>\n<p>The game had to be stopped as medical staff looked at Hill, ultimately deciding to pull him from the game. Here&#8217;s a look at what happened to the lead official.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/keon-coleman-benched-timeline-trouble-bills\/339d917ea5a9a566c4e62215\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bills make Keon Coleman inactive for second straight week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NFL referee Adrian Hill injury<\/p>\n<p>Hill appeared to suffer an injury away from the play in the third quarter as he came up limping while running to make a call. Medical staff came out to check on Hill and ended up helping him off the field, as Hill would eventually be carted off.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NFL ref Adrian Hill is carted off with a leg injury during the Bills-Texans TNF game. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#NFL<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HlPkaJhTs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7HlPkaJhTs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1991711048567509087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Hill out, umpire Roy Ellison took over for Hill as the referee in the game. Ellison is a veteran official who has worked as an umpire since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WEEK 12 NFL:<\/p>\n<p>How many NFL refs per game?<\/p>\n<p>Each NFL game has seven officials who all hold a different job, including:<\/p>\n<p>RefereeUmpireDown JudgeLine JudgeField JudgeSide JudgeBack Judge<\/p>\n<p>The referee acts as the crew chief, announcing penalties to the crowd and audience throughout the game. If the referee can&#8217;t go for whatever reason, the umpire would take over the referee&#8217;s responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries occur every NFL game, but on Thursday night, it was an official who suffered the most serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}