Buffalo Bils offensive liner Tommy Doyle moves away from professional football.
The 26 -year -old Doyle decided to withdraw medically from sports after four years in the league, the team announced on Friday, February 14th. The offensive liner was injured in the legs in August 2023, which caused nerve damage. “At this point, with the calendar and the healing process, it seems to be constant,” Doyle says in a statement Posted by the team Friday. “I just can’t play high -level football and it’s time. When you know you know. “
The liner also tore its ACL at the beginning of the 2022 season, and the combination of the two injuries turned out to be too much to overcome.
“I really struggled and competed and worked to get back from this (ACL) injury, just to be struck by an even more crashing injury,” Doyle explained. “But at the end of the day, there were many negative emotions and anger … doing many reflecting lately and I looked back at him, I learned many valuable lessons from him.”
Doyle, which was prepared by the accounts in the fifth round of the NFL 2021 draft and continued to play 11 games during his year as a rookie.
Doyle is not the only member of the team who has derailed his career from unexpected injuries and medical events. In September 2024 a teammate Possibility He returned to the start list of the bills less than two years after he collapsed on the pitch during a football match on Monday night due to cardiac arrest.
Show support. Former Buffalo Beffy teammate, former Harrison Phillips, has revealed that he has dinner to the medical staff who is healing his friend. “I found a sandwiches shop and ordered food – chips, drinks and sandwiches, everything I could find, salads, whatever it is – for all doctors, nurses on ICU, (…)
“It was such a long trip and a long process.” Hamlin said USA Exceptionally at that time. “It took me to take it one day. I will never lose this. This is my approach to the rest of this life I am. “
Hamlin also said the whole team was focused. “I think maintaining the focus internally and maintaining the focus on the process is the main one,” he added. “Your process will take you as far as you trust. I’m just deeply embedded in my process one day. I am committed to this. “
The team made a playoff this year that finished Defeat 32-29 In the game of the AFC championship against Kansas City, the bosses in January and a number of changes may be in the future of the bill after this loss. Hamlin and teammate Amari Cooper will head to the 2025-26 season as free agents and James Cook has indicated He will request an extension of the $ 15 million contract before the start of the season.
