Bills Release LB Mitchell After Reaching Injury Settlement

Guess he is trying to find his way on a contender so he can be ready for the playoffs… playoffs!?

But whatever… makes sense for him and he wasn’t fitting in this year, so I find it as no problem and will help the Bills address the LB position in the offseason… the most important thing on D IMO

He should go back to the Giants if this is true, they need LBs bad….

If Buffalo is planning on re-signing Posluszny, it only makes sense to release Mitchell. In fact, they should have released him the day they signed Andra Davis. He’s too expensive and old (and recently injury prone) to be a backup on a re-building team. A young inside linebacker should be drafted in the middle rounds next year as an heir apparent for Davis.

To be honest, I didn’t like Mitchell’s game even when healthy and starting.

Disappointed in him since hes been here. Hes had a few good games… but overall I think he was a tad over-rated coming in. Everyone was stuck on his sack from the Super Bowl vs NE.

I think this would be a good breakup.

But you were no Bob Sanders

Think Kawika is one of the coolest guys on the team, and it sucks that his Bills career ended the way it did. I never got the impression that Chan Gailey and George Edwards liked him as a 3-4 ’backer, though. Best for both sides to move on.

Good for Kawika that he’d rather be playing somewhere else than earning a bigger paycheck to sit around on IR here.

Does this mean that the Bills are back at zero SB rings on the roster?

If it wasn’t to the point that I basically forgot he was on the current roster. I think that sums the whole thing up.

I’m shocked. I mean as I was told before “injuries happen.”

Schoebel, Edwards, Mitchell.

This bus is leaving and if you’re not on for the long haul, get off.

I can see Chan in the trucker hat as the ornery old bus driver.

The kids on that bus know better than to mess around.

When Ritchie was already a Bill, that soured me on him, so good riddance, and good luck Mitchell.

Always liked Mitchell. Too bad.

But there was no reason for Nix to keep him on the roster when he was going to be out AT LEAST 12 weeks. Bills are going young anyway. We will probably see more instances like this going forward and that’s not a bad thing; painful because it leads to more losses in the near future, but necessary because it could lead to bigger difference makers down the road.

i liked this guy. but what can u do when he’s always injured? we need to replace poz as well. the guy is always hurt.

Mitchell told reporters in the Bills locker room that he had a Linsfranc foot injury and would be out a minimum of 12 weeks. Despite the length of the projected recovery, he seemed displeased by his placement on IR.

How can you be upset with being placed on IR with an injury that’s going to keep you out a MINIMUM of 12 weeks? I don’t care what Polian did, who does he think he is?

Does this move indirectly pave the way for Shawn Nelson to return to the active roster?