{"id":804802,"date":"2026-03-10T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:30:17","slug":"bills-trade-taron-johnson-to-the-raiders-ahead-of-official-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804802\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills trade Taron Johnson to the Raiders ahead of official release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Not so fast! And with that, an audible comes into play for the Buffalo Bills and cornerback Taron Johnson. After initially reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalorumblings.com\/buffalo-bills-roster\/130401\/taron-johnson-released-by-buffalo-bills-in-salary-cap-move\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Johnson was to be released by One Bills Drive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Johnson was to be released by One Bills Drive&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Johnson was to be released by One Bills Drive<\/a>, the latest twist has the Las Vegas Raiders swooping in for the longtime \u201cBuffalo Nickel\u201d courtesy of an accounting loophole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ian Rapoport revealed that the trade involves a 6\/7 pick swap. Joe Buscaglia reported Tuesday that Johnson and pick 228 are going to the Raiders and the Bills are getting back pick 182.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bills reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/salsports\/status\/2030824026600292855?s=46&amp;t=hNoLBzlei5gT4vi8cHWHkA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sal Capaccio notes that the parameters of the trade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sal Capaccio notes that the parameters of the trade&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sal Capaccio notes that the parameters of the trade<\/a> will not impact the dead-cap charge One Bills Drive was set to incur with his release. The reason? As Capaccio notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHis base salary is picked up by the Raiders, but the Bills were not going to be hit with that, anyway. They are still responsible for effectively the same dead cap charge they were already going to take with a release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following an eight-year career with the Bills that began his rookie season, Johnson seemed destined for free agency as part of Buffalo\u2019s need to get under the salary cap by the start of the new league year. Instead, he\u2019ll avoid an uncertain playing fate and pack his bags for the bright lights of Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stay tuned here at Buffalo Rumblings where we\u2019ll have more info on the latest with Taron Johnson as further details become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not so fast! And with that, an audible comes into play for the Buffalo Bills and cornerback Taron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,1270,258,8302,7,5328,393,6,5432,29561,1727,3025],"class_list":["post-804802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-bills","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-buffalobills","tag-courtland-sutton","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denver-post","tag-football","tag-ian-rapoport","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-nfl","tag-release","tag-sal-capaccio","tag-taron-johnson","tag-the-bills"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116205599112100483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804802","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=804802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}