{"id":31166,"date":"2026-03-13T05:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:20:30","slug":"olb-bradley-chubb-to-join-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/31166\/","title":{"rendered":"OLB Bradley Chubb To Join Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designated a post-June 1 cut by the Dolphins, Bradley Chubb<\/a> intends to join one of their rivals. The Bills are bringing in the former top-five pick, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Chubb is signing a three-year, $43.5MM contract with Buffalo. Of that total, $29MM is guaranteed. The deal can max out at $52.5MM. This signing could point Joey Bosa<\/a> out of Buffalo, but with a new defensive system being implemented, the Bills are making changes to that unit early in free agency.<\/p>\n

Miami officially designated Chubb a post-June 1 release, per NFL.com\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>. This long-rumored cut will create $20.23MM in cap space for a Dolphins team that made history with its other post-June 1 designation today. Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>\u2018s release will tag Miami with an NFL-record $99.2MM in dead cap. That money will be spread over two years, but it still smashes the record Russell Wilson<\/a>\u2018s Broncos release set in 2024.<\/p>\n

Long deploying a 4-3 defense, the Bills are switching to a 3-4 scheme under new DC Jim Leonhard<\/a>. Chubb is a career-long 3-4 outside linebacker, beginning in that role with the Broncos and moving to the Dolphins via a blockbuster 2022 trade. The former Denver Von Miller<\/a> sidekick has battled major injuries \u2014 two ACL tears \u2014 during his time as a pro, but he bounced back with a healthy 2025 season. Still, the Dolphins\u2019 new regime moved on.<\/p>\n

Drafted two spots before Josh Allen<\/a> in the 2018 first round, Chubb pursued the rookie-year sack record and reached 12 alongside Miller that year in Denver. He missed most of the 2019 season with an ACL tear and battled more injury trouble in 2021, seeing Denver unload him at the \u201922 deadline. Chubb signed a Dolphins extension in 2022 but suffered a second ACL tear late in the \u201923 season and missed all of 2024. This led to a reworked deal in 2025.<\/p>\n

Returning to play his age-29 season last year, Chubb started in all 17 of the Dolphins\u2019 games and recorded quality counting stats. Chubb finished the campaign with 47 tackles (eight TFL), 20 QB hits and 8.5 sacks. On the other hand, Pro Football Focus<\/a> was unimpressed with the two-time Pro Bowler, whom it ranked 103rd among 119 qualifying edge rushers.<\/p>\n

With Bosa and A.J. Epenesa<\/a> among their free agents, it was obvious the Bills would need to add at least one established edge rusher this offseason. Those two combined for 1,000 defensive snaps and 7.5 sacks in 2025. Bosa led the league with five forced fumbles, though his impact dropped off to a noticeable degree as the season progressed.<\/p>\n

The Bills were involved in the free agency sweepstakes for Trey Hendrickson<\/a>, but he agreed to a four-year, $112MM deal<\/a> with the Ravens on Wednesday. They also factored into the initial round of trade talks<\/a> for Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby<\/a>. While Crosby could become available again after the Ravens backed out of a trade with the Raiders, the Chubb signing may take the Bills out of the running.<\/p>\n

Connor Byrne contributed to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Designated a post-June 1 cut by the Dolphins, Bradley Chubb intends to join one of their rivals. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[7200,18281,240,7202,3509],"class_list":{"0":"post-31166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chubb","8":"tag-bradley-chubb","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-chubb","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116220187298822682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}