Buffalo Bills roster cuts: team officially at 75 players

The Buffalo Bills (and every NFL team) must trim their rosters to 75 players prior to 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 1. After a day off for the players following their impressive showing against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bills announced the follow cuts officially just before 10:30 this morning.

RB Fred Jackson

See our article on the release of Jackson for more.

The #Bills have released RB Fred Jackson as part of their roster cut to 75, according to an #NFL source.

— Vic Carucci (@viccarucci) August 31, 2015

#Bills RB Fred Jackson was slated to make $2.35M in Buffalo this year. He was not asked to make a paycut. He was simply released.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 31, 2015

LB Ty Powell

Powell is the opposite of a cut. The injured linebacker can officially come off the Bills roster figure at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. In order to place him on Injured Reserve prior to that time, they would have had to expose him to waivers. They didn't want to risk losing him, so they protected him by waiting.

The rest of the Bills' releases are below:

• RB Ricky Seale
• WR Austin Willis (waived/injured)
• OT Terren Jones
• OG D.J. Morrell
• DL Justin Hamilton
• ER Michael Buchanan
• ER Cedric Reed
• ER Andrew Hudson
• CB Ellis Lankster
• CB Ross Cockrell
• CB Cam Thomas (Reserve/PUP)
• S Kenny Ladler
• S Wesley Miller