CUT or KEEP: Will Tyler Bass Stay With the Buffalo Bills? EXPLORING 2026 Special Teams Dynamics

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Buffalo Bills face pivotal special teams decisions as Tyler Bass’s injury and Matt Prater’s clutch playoff performance spark debate: who will handle kicking duties in 2026? Joe Marino examines the team’s options at kicker, including the uncertain outlook for Bass, veteran reliability from Prater, and the big-legged but unproven Maddox Trujillo. With punter Mitch Wishnowski’s steady play and potential free-agent target Blake Gillikin on the radar, the Bills must also solidify the punting position. Reed Ferguson’s reliability continues at long snapper, but a pressing need for a dynamic punt returner remains, despite Ray Davis’s All-Pro status on kick returns. Can new special teams coordinator Jeff Rodgers cut down on costly penalties and transform Buffalo’s return game? Don’t miss this comprehensive review of the Bills’ special teams landscape and what it means for the upcoming NFL season.

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0:00.0	Will the Buffalo Bills special teams stabilize in 2026?
0:04.8	We're going to explore that today on Locked on Bills.
0:11.9	You are locked on bills.
0:15.6	Your daily Buffalo Bills podcast.
0:18.7	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:24.5	What's up, Bill's Mafia?
0:26.5	It's Joe Marino, author of the Heard Mentality Substack co-hosts of the Lockdown
0:31.3	NFL Scouting podcast, co-hosts of the NFL First Read podcast, and I'm your host of
0:36.4	Locked-on Bills.
0:39.0	Locked-on Bills is a proud part of the Locked on Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network. I want to thank
0:44.1	you for making Lockdown Bills your first listen every day in a big welcome and shout out to our
0:49.0	everydayers. You know who you are. Those of you who never miss a single episode, I appreciate
0:54.0	you all being here
0:54.8	very very much well folks welcome in i'm excited to talk special teams with you on today's episode
1:02.1	i woke up this morning to a message in our discord channel from someone who said joe you're
1:09.0	not going to do the special teams review and outlook.
1:12.7	And I said, you know what?
1:14.1	I'm going to do it.
1:15.3	And so we're going to do it right now, even though maybe I wasn't originally planning on doing
1:19.8	this, but I'm glad someone asked the question and it prompted me to think, yeah, I got to do it.
1:25.7	So we're doing it right now.
1:26.8	So we will focus in today
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