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‘”It’s official I’m a @buffalobills!!! I’m so grateful and excited for this opportunity this moment I’ve dreamt about for four years. I’m back!!!!!!!”‘

‘Another mission of Hamlin’s right now is making sure the money donated to his charity is going to the right places. Hamlin set up the Chasing M’s Foundation in college, and thanks to fans and players, $10 million has been donated. The GoFundMe has more than $9.1 million and another $1 million was donated to a fundraiser set up by The Giving Back Fund.’

‘One piece of information from this meeting that was rather notable is that the district attorney’s office concluded Araiza left the home an hour before evidence suggested the alleged gang rape would have occurred.’

‘Had Ertz been traded to Buffalo, the Bills would have acquired a three-time Pro Bowler who three years earlier had helped the Eagles defeat the Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Ertz would have been a nice addition to an offense that already included quarterback Josh Allen, wideout Stefon Diggs and fellow tight end Dawson Knox.’

‘According to Bengals.com, Hamlin’s mother, Nina, reached out to Higgins after the incident “to reassure him it was fate and not him that felled her son.”‘

‘According to the franchise, the Bills’ “start-of-the-art, pen-air stadium” will be built on a 242-acre site and will cover about 1.35 million square feet, making it the biggest project ever built in Western New York. The site’s related development also includes the construction of a 75,000-square-foot ancillary building and demolition of the current stadium.’

‘Ford, just 27 years old, has 83 quarterback pressures across the last three seasons — which was the the most on the Seattle Seahawks in that span. He had three sacks and seven quarterback hits playing at defensive tackle last season.’

‘Murray will likely be able to come in and help right away for the Bills. At 6-foot-3 and 230-pounds, Murray is a bruising running back who will almost certainly see action in short yardage situations in 2023. The 33-year-old is coming off a 2022 season where he was one of the few bright spots for a Broncos’ offense that struggled with Russell Wilson at quarterback.’

‘”It’d be great,” Miller told CBS Sports HQ Spotlight on Tuesday of the possibility of being teammates with Hopkins in Buffalo. “It’d be great to have great players on your team, especially my boys. Especially like an Odell Beckman — You know, Odell went to the Ravens. Or DeAndre Hopkins. Both of these are my guys. It just means a little bit more when your guys have an opportunity to play for a team that you’re on, man.’

‘Bass was entering the final year of his rookie deal with the organization and is set to make $1.01 million base salary for the 2023 season. Now, he is one of the highest-paid kickers in the league.’

‘”I know this sounds crazy, but I’m getting older,” Allen said, via the team’s website. “It’s like I can’t continue to do this. I know when I’m using my youth I feel like I can, but over the course of my career, I’m going to have to learn to adapt and change. And I’ve always had the mindset of I’ve been a football player first and a quarterback second, and at some point that’s going to have to switch. When that point is I don’t know, I guess I’ll let my body tell me.”‘

‘”I’m thankful and blessed,” Hamlin said at a press conference Tuesday. “I’m blessed to have wonderful trainers here who treat me with the love and care as if I were their own children. … This event was life-changing, but it’s not the end of my story. I’m here to announce that I plan on making a comeback to the NFL. The diagnosis of what happened to me was basically commotio cordis. It’s a direct blow at a specific point in your heartbeat that causes cardiac arrest, and five to seconds later you fall out. That’s what everyone has seen back on January 2nd of this year. commotio cordis is the leading cause of (death for) athletes across all youth sports, so that’s something I will be taking a step in to make a change. The awareness around CPR and the access to AEDs have been lowering that number as well.”‘

‘The five-time Pro Bowl receiver has been the subject of trade rumors this offseason as Arizona looks to possibly move off him. For his part, Hopkins has largely remained silent publicly about these trade talks, and we mean that literally. In a recent interview with CBS Sports’ Bryant McFadden, Hopkins, by merely having us judge his body language, did seem to suggest he’s intrigued about the possibility of joining the Bills. On top of that, Miller has since revealed Hopkins has told him he wants to come to Buffalo.’

‘Lawson, 28, spent his first four seasons in Buffalo before he signed a three-year, $30 million deal with the Dolphins in March of 2020. Nearly a year after signing with Miami, the Dolphins sent Lawson and a 2021 sixth-round pick to Houston in exchange for a 2021 seven-round pick and former Pro Bowl linebacker Benardrick McKinney. Lawson was released by the Texans just before the end of the 2021 season.’

‘The desired positions are ones that could help lessen the offensive burden on quarterback Josh Allen’s shoulders: an interior offensive lineman or an offensive skill player (running back, wide receiver, or tight end). Possible targets could include Florida offensive lineman O’Cyrus Torrence, TCU offensive lineman Steve Avila, Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston, or Texas running back Bijan Robinson.’