{"id":320591,"date":"2025-08-27T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/320591\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:53:14","slug":"why-bills-cut-frank-gore-jr-son-of-49ers-legend-and-nfl-preseason-stats-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/320591\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bills cut Frank Gore Jr., son of 49ers legend and NFL preseason stats leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/why-bills-cut-frank-gore-jr-son-49ers-legend-nfl-preseason-stats-leader\/bb2e0d1d1008d3689f579e5f?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Bills cut Frank Gore Jr., son of 49ers legend and NFL preseason stats leader;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Bills cut Frank Gore Jr., son of 49ers legend and NFL preseason stats leader<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank Gore Jr. was playing a numbers game.<\/p>\n<p>And although he himself put up big numbers for the Buffalo Bills in the preseason, it wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Bills announced Tuesday that Gore was one of 27 players they released (with various designations) to get down to their initial 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Gore, the son of a 49ers legend with the same name who ran for 16,000 NFL yards, was a preseason star. He was the only player in the league to have both 100 rushing yards and 100 receiving yards this month.<\/p>\n<p>But he won&#8217;t be on the Bills&#8217; 53-man roster to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/news\/chiefs-travis-kelce-engagement-taylor-swift-retirement-plans-news\/826a1ae30a07798bc0f2d06a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How Travis Kelce&#039;s engagement to Taylor Swift impacts Chiefs TE&#039;s retirement plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How Travis Kelce&#8217;s engagement to Taylor Swift impacts Chiefs TE&#8217;s retirement plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did the Bills cut Frank Gore Jr.?<\/p>\n<p>Frank Gore Jr. was in a tough spot.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s spent previous summers with the Bills, but he hasn&#8217;t played in a regular season game yet.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And the Buffalo RB depth chart was not friendly to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills have James Cook established as RB1, and once he got his $48 million contract extension, he was ready to go for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Cook is second-year back Ray Davis, a promising and powerful rusher.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/browns-quinshon-judkins-114-million-contract-update-nfl-cut-day\/a8ba036590b8a2ee885912fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The latest on the Browns and RB Quinshon Judkins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The latest on the Browns and RB Quinshon Judkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bills also regularly count on Ty Johnson as their third-down back, so his spot was safe.<\/p>\n<p>That left very little space for Gore.<\/p>\n<p>His preseason performance likely earns him a practice squad spot if he doesn&#8217;t target a move elsewhere, but he&#8217;ll have to wait to get his NFL regular season debut.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Bills cut Frank Gore Jr., son of 49ers legend and NFL preseason stats leader originally appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,36666,36005,3027,6,586,3028,3025,500,3030],"class_list":{"0":"post-320591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-frank-gore","14":"tag-frank-gore-jr","15":"tag-james-cook","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-quinshon-judkins","18":"tag-ray-davis","19":"tag-the-bills","20":"tag-travis-kelce","21":"tag-ty-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115098471999609472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}