Joe Buscaglia

Buffalo

Bills Beat Reporter at The Athletic

Bills beat reporter @TheAthletic. Creator of too many spreadsheets. Husband. Dad. (dog)Dad.

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Joey Bosa already sidelined, Cole Bishop starts fresh

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The last time we saw the full Bills roster on a field was when they were exiting the stadium in Kansas City following a heartbreaking three-point loss in the AFC Championship Game. This week, the Bills officially turned the page and began their 2025 preparations. The team began organized team activities Tuesday with a non-contact practice without pads.
James Cook, Dalton Kincaid, Keon Coleman and more

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

With the vast majority of offseason acquisitions now over with, it's finally time for the Bills to get back on the field for their first practice setting of the spring. On Tuesday, May 27, the Bills will open their doors for practice during Organized Team Activities. As a reminder, OTAs are similar to the practices teams run right at the beginning of training camp. Players don't where pads other than shoulder shells and helmets, and it is a non-contact workout.
'Hard Knocks' will feature Buffalo Bills for first time in franchise history

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

For the first time in franchise history, the NFL has selected the Buffalo Bills as the featured team of "Hard Knocks," the HBO documentary series that follows one team through training camp from late July into August. Almost every year that Bills coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane have been in charge of the franchise, the team has been ineligible to be featured on the HBO series due to making the playoffs for five straight years from 2019 to 2023.
An early look at potential positions to address

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The Bills will begin their annual Organized Team Activities in one week, giving us our first glimpse of the 2025 roster. In addition to getting to see the newest version of the Bills together, it's the official beginning of the evaluation period for the roster beyond this upcoming season. On Monday, we discussed how the team's cap standing in 2026, mixed with a lot of difficult decisions, would yield a magnifying glass on the upcoming year.
Why 2025 is Bills' inflection point to extend the winning window for Josh Allen's prime

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The NFL Draft is well over, the schedule for the upcoming season is out and the Buffalo Bills are a little over one week away from beginning their first round of organized team activities. And with how they pieced things together this offseason, though 2024 led some to wonder whether a step back was on the way, 2025 is the opposite. The Bills appear on the precipice of another memorable season and will likely be in the Super Bowl conversation all year.
Battle for AFC supremacy goes through Chiefs, Ravens yet again

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The NFL will release 2025 schedules for all 32 teams at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Here is what we know about the Buffalo Bills' schedule so far. Buffalo meets every team from the AFC North and the NFC South this season. The Bills also play against division winners from the NFC East (Philadelphia Eagles), AFC South (Houston Texans) and AFC West (Kansas City Chiefs). Here is the lineup of the Bills' home and road opponents, listed alphabetically:Once again, Bills-Chiefs takes center stage.
First looks at speedy Maxwell Hairston, huge Landon Jackson, and more

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

As the NFL shifts away from the player acquisition stage of the offseason and into preparing for the 2025 season, Friday afternoon offered up the first glimpse of Bills football of the upcoming campaign. It marked the beginning of the team's two-day rookie minicamp, featuring all of the players the team drafted only two weeks ago. The rookie minicamp was made up of a total of 51 players - 25 who are on the 90-man active roster, and another 26 who were rookie minicamp tryout invites.
Where new and returning players could fit in this season

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The 2025 NFL Draft is well in the rearview mirror and the Bills added significantly to their defense in the hopes that it will catch up to their offensive prowess from 2024. And with the player acquisition phase of the offseason mostly over, the Bills are getting ready to start their on-field practices this week. It begins with their rookie minicamp on Friday, featuring all the defensive players who made up the beginning of the Bills' 2025 class.
Movement at defensive end, different possibilities at cornerback

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia

The 2025 NFL Draft is done, and the Buffalo Bills head into spring workouts with most of their depth chart filled in. There will be some additions over the next few months, but the team they have now is essentially the one they'll have this season. Here is how the team looks heading into offseason workouts in May. *Denotes an undrafted free agent who agreed to terms to join the 90-man roster, according to a league source. Quarterback (4)1. Josh Allen 2. Mitchell Trubisky 3. Mike White 4.
Bills sign WR Elijah Moore to 1-year deal after GM's fiery comments: Source

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Joe Buscaglia |RJ Kraft

The Buffalo Bills have added wide receiver Elijah Moore on a one-year deal, a team source said. The deal is worth up to $5 million, according to multiple reports. Moore joins a wide receiver corps that includes Khalil Shakir ( who signed an extension this offseason), second-year man Keon Coleman, Joshua Palmer (who signed as a free agent in March from the Los Angeles Chargers) and Curtis Samuel.