{"id":712918,"date":"2026-06-19T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:55:11","slug":"bills-sign-ufl-rb-ian-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712918\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills sign UFL RB Ian Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills have added a running back who was most recently starring in the UFL.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo announced on Thursday that the club has signed Ian Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler, 24, won the UFL championship with the Louisville Kings. He was also the United Bowl MVP. He rushed for 541 yards in 83 carries in 11 games in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler was previously in the NFL, having entered the league as an undrafted free agent with the Bears in 2024. He tore his ACL in a preseason game, missing that entire season.<\/p>\n<p>He then spent time with the Saints in 2025 before heading to the UFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills have added a running back who was most recently starring in the UFL. Buffalo announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-712918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}