Buffalo Bills elevate defensive tackle Jordan Phillips from practice squad

Prior to Sunday’s tilt with the New Orleans Saints, the Buffalo Bills announced that they have elevated veteran defensive tackle Jordan Phillips from their practice squad. This is Phillips’ first elevation of the season.

Phillips, 33, has played with the Bills across parts of five different seasons throughout his career. While with Buffalo, he’s totaled 90 tackles, 20 tackles for loss, 28 quarterback hits, and 13.5 sacks in 61 regular-season games. He appeared in seven games with the Bills last season, notching five tackles and the second interception of his career.

With Ed Oliver still battling injury, Phillips figures to slot into the defensive tackle rotation alongside DaQuan Jones, Deone Walker, and T.J. Sanders. Zion Logue had played the role Phillips will likely play Sunday, as the Bills called him up in two of the team’s first three games. However, if they were to elevate Logue one more time, that would mean that they could not do so again via practice-squad elevation. They would instead have to sign him to the 53-man roster.

Phillips was the only elevation noted by the Bills, meaning that they won’t add another linebacker to the game-day roster this weekend, even with Matt Milano ruled out for the game. Keonta Jenkins had been elevated for the previous two games. Buffalo’s healthy linebackers are Dorian Williams, Terrel Bernard, Joe Andreessen, and Shaq Thompson.