Bills Trade for Much Needed Help at Safety

The Buffalo Bills have added a ball-hawking safety. They’ve traded for Tennessee Titans safety Amani Hooker.

Buffalo sends a second-round pick to Tennessee and gets Hooker and a fifth-round pick back, according to ESPN. Yahoo Sports reports both picks are in the twenty-twenty-seven draft, and the deal is pending a physical.

Hooker, twenty-eight, leads the N-F-L with five interceptions, three of them in a single game against Cincinnati on November first. He also has fifty-two tackles and six pass breakups in seven games. A fourth-round pick out of Iowa in twenty-nineteen, he has seventeen career interceptions, all with Tennessee. He’s signed through twenty-twenty-eight on a three-year, forty-point-five million dollar deal.

The Bills need the help. They released C-J Gardner-Johnson earlier this month, and their secondary ranked among the league’s worst through six games. Buffalo is seven and one and the top seed in the A-F-C after Monday night’s twenty-three to six win over Minnesota.

Tennessee is one and seven. The Bills visit the Jets Sunday at noon Central. The Titans host Jacksonville.