Practice squads can be very valuable to our Buffalo Bills during the season, giving young players time to develop and prepare in case of an injury to one of the starters — or even backups.
After the deadline for NFL teams to knock their rosters down to 53 players hit on Saturday, teams were allowed to begin formulating their practice squads. Before we get into who the Bills have added so far, I think we should go over what exactly the practice squad is.
In short, an NFL practice squad is made up of 10 players that the team didn’t have room for on the 53-man roster, but still wanted to keep close to the team for development reasons.