A former Bills player who had his career derailed by injuries is attempting to make a comeback to football and the NFL this season

Former Bills RB Nyheim Hines is trying to make an NFL comeback

Hines began his career with the Colts for four and a half seasons. After seven games in the 2022 NFL season, the Bills elected to make a move to add the former fourth-round draft pick. The Bills sent Indianapolis RB Zack Moss and a conditional sixth-round pick that eventually became a fifth-round pick.

Hines ended up appearing in nine games with Buffalo, recording six rushes for a very uninspiring -3 yards, along with five receptions for 53 yards and one touchdown. His biggest impact for Buffalo came on special teams, with him returning 16 punts for 153 yards and, even more impressively, he turned 19 kick returns into 554 yards and two touchdowns. Both touchdowns actually came in the same game, believe it or not. 

Unfortunately, a freak injury during the offseason took the entire 2023 season away from Hines, and he has yet to return to live game action in the NFL. He's hoping to change that soon by earning a second chance to make his NFL dreams come true. I doubt that second chance will be in Buffalo, though, after his time with the team not leading to much of an offensive role. Whoever lands Hines will get a shifty athlete who in the past had the ability to impact both the rushing and passing games. Preferably, you'd want him to be no better than RB 3 on your depth chart, and the best role to let him compete to be his a starter woudl be as a returner.