{"id":94227,"date":"2025-08-24T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:57:07","slug":"bills-cut-seven-players-nbc-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94227\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills cut seven players &#8211; NBC Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills began the process of cutting their roster to 53 players. <\/p>\n<p>They announced Sunday the release of six players, and they also waived wide receiver Grant DuBose with an injury designation.<\/p>\n<p>DuBose injured a shoulder in Wednesday\u2019s training camp practice, forcing him to miss Saturday\u2019s preseason finale.<\/p>\n<p>He will revert to the Bills\u2019 injured reserve list if he clears waivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills waived defensive back Zy Alexander, defensive end Nelson Ceaser, defensive back Garnett Hollis Jr., offensive lineman Rush Reimer, tight end Matt Sokol and running back Elijah Young.<\/p>\n<p>Hollis, an undrafted free agent, was just signed Saturday, and he played 20 defensive snaps and one on special teams against the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>Sokol has made eight regular-season appearances since entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2019. He has spent time with seven different franchises but has only 53 career offensive snaps. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander was an undrafted free agent out of the 2025 draft who originally signed with the Seahawks. Reimer and Young also were undrafted free agents.<\/p>\n<p>Ceaser signed with the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2024. He spent time earlier this spring in the UFL with the DC Defenders and San Antonio Brahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have until Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET to reach the NFL-mandated roster limit of 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills began the process of cutting their roster to 53 players. They announced Sunday the release of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-94227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}