{"id":708352,"date":"2026-11-10T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/708352\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:00:11","slug":"reports-bills-acquire-safety-amani-hooker-from-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/708352\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Bills acquire safety Amani Hooker from Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, N.Y. (WGR) &#8211; Ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s NFL Trade Deadline, the Buffalo Bills were reportedly exploring the market to find a piece to improve the roster heading into the final half of the season. That help reportedly comes for the secondary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports Tuesday, the Bills have acquired safety Amani Hooker from the Tennessee Titans, along with a 2027 fifth-round pick, in exchange for a 2027 second-round pick. The trade was first reported by NFL reporter Tom Pelissero from The Ringer.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker is an eight-year veteran that&#8217;s spent his entire career with the Titans, to this point. He was a fourth-round pick (116th overall) of Tennessee in the 2019 NFL Draft out of the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 103 career games, Hooker has accounted for 468 total tackles, 14 tackles for loss, three quarterback hits, a sack, 45 passes defended, 17 interceptions, five forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old is already in the midst of a potential career-year with 52 total tackles, six passes defended and a league-best five interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker is currently in Year 1 of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/29164\/amani-hooker\/contract\/cap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-year contract<\/a> with a cap hit of $4.470 million. His cap hit over the next two seasons then increase to $10.28 million in 2027 and $13.5 million in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills now bolster their safety group after releasing C.J. Gardner-Johnson after his one-game suspension last week. Hooker will also join a group that includes Damar Hamlin, Cole Bishop, Geno Stone, Jalon Kilgore and Sam Franklin Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL Trade Deadline is set for 4 p.m. EST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orchard Park, N.Y. (WGR) &#8211; Ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s NFL Trade Deadline, the Buffalo Bills were reportedly exploring the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[60627,74792,967,1107,2077,229,5133,4347,5,1812,4,1108,6127,60626],"class_list":["post-708352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-all-local","tag-amani-hooker","tag-breaking-news","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-football","tag-hockey","tag-nfl","tag-nhl","tag-sabres","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-wgr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117593926760729196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}