Bills Sign LB Tyrel Dodson & OT Brandon Hitner To Practice Squad

The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday that they’ve signed LB Tyrel Dodson and OT Brandon Hitner to their practice squad and released DE Wyatt Ray from the unit. 

Here’s the Bills updated practice squad:

  1. CB Cam Lewis
  2. DE Eddie Yarbrough
  3. RB Christian Wade (International)
  4. TE Nate Becker
  5. QB Davis Webb
  6. WR Nick Easley
  7. WR Ray-Ray McCloud
  8. LB Del’Shawn Phillips
  9. OT Victor Salako
  10. LB Tyrel Dodson 
  11. OT Brandon Hitner 

Dodson, 21, wound up going undrafted out of Texas A&M back in April. He later agreed to a three-year, $1.755 million contract with the Bills.

Buffalo later placed Dodson on the commissioner’s exempt list coming out of the preseason. He was waived earlier in the week after serving his six-game suspension.

During his college career at Texas A&M, Dodson recorded 201 tackles, six sacks, four interceptions, two defensive touchdowns, two fumble recoveries and 11 pass defenses over the course of three seasons and 36 games.

Hitner, 24, wound up going undrafted out of Villanova back in April. He later agreed to a three-year, $1.755 million contract with the Rams.

However, Los Angeles waived Hitner coming out of the preseason and he would later have a brief stint with the Jets. 

During his college career at Villanova, Hitner was a two-year starter, appearing in 28 total games.

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