The Jets were among the 10 teams that voted to keep the tush push, defying the league’s desire to kill the play.
Could it be a sign that the Jets are planning to incorporate the technique into their offense, given that quarterback Justin Fields is on track to be the starter?
As noted by Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, Fields has attempted 12 push sneaks in his career. Eleven resulted in first downs.
Since 2021, only two quarterbacks have run the play more than Fields. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has 100 attempts (with an 86 percent success rate) and Bills quarterback Josh Allen has done it 55 times, with success happening on 50 occasions.
Fields’s 11-of-12 conversion rate puts him at a higher average than Hurts or Allen, with 91.667 percent success. So, yes, it’s entirely possible that the Jets opted to defy the wishes of the league office in order to advance the objectives of the team’s new coaching staff.
The 2025 NFL schedule shapes up nicely for the Bills to have a big year.
After the schedule was released, point spreads were released for all 272 regular-season games, and only the Bills were favored in all 17 games on their schedule, according to David Purdum of ESPN.
The Bills benefit from getting their two toughest games at home, with the Ravens coming to Buffalo in Week One and the Chiefs coming to Buffalo in Week Nine. The Bills also benefit from the Chiefs having a short work week in that Week nine game, as the Chiefs play on Monday night in Week Eight.
The Chiefs and Ravens are each favored in 16 games, and underdogs only at Buffalo.
The Bills have built a team that looks like it should be a Super Bowl contender any year that Josh Allen is healthy. This year, the schedule is favorable for them to earn the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and perhaps for Allen to finally reach his first Super Bowl.
The Bills are going to be in the spotlight this summer.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced at a Wednesday press conference that the Bills will be featured on this summer’s edition of Hard Knocks. HBO announced an August 5 premiere date.
Rules governing which teams could be selected for Hard Knocks in 2024. Teams can only avoid being selected if they have a first-year head coach, have appeared on the show in the last eight years and will participate in the in-season version of the show at some point in the next two seasons.
Previous rules allowed teams to opt out if they’d made the playoffs in either of the previous two seasons, which the Bills have done and their quest to break through after another loss to the Chiefs in the AFC title game will be a main storyline of this summer’s show.
The Bills have made a move to create space on their 90-man roster for wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson.
The team announced that they have waived wide receiver Hal Presley III on Tuesday. Wilkerson’s signing was reported on Monday and officially announced along with the cut.
Presley signed with the Bills after going undrafted out of Baylor this year. He had 81 catches for 1,048 yards and seven touchdowns during his time in college.
Wilkerson was let go by the Raiders earlier in the offseason. He joins Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Joshua Palmer, Elijah Moore, Curtis Samuel, KJ Hamler, Laviska Shenault, and seventh-round pick Kaden Prather on the receiver depth chart in Buffalo.
The Bills signed free agent wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson, according to the NFL’s transactions report.
The Raiders recently waived Wilkerson.
Wilkerson, 28, spent the past two seasons with the Raiders before signing a futures contract after last season ended. He appeared in two games in 2023 and three in 2024, seeing action on 87 offensive snaps and 15 on special teams.
Wilkerson made two catches for 18 yards and a touchdown last season.
He spent his first three seasons with the Patriots.
In his career, Wilkerson has six catches for 60 yards and three touchdowns.
