The Buffalo Bills had a rash of bad injury luck at the linebacker position last season. It was so rough that the team literally had to call a guy who was out of the NFL and planning an RV trip with his family (A.J. Klein) to start a playoff game.
However, the only reason that Klein had to start a playoff game was that, in the Wild Card Round against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo lost yet another linebacker to injury. In that game, they weren’t starting a guy they picked up off the street, but instead, they were starting a player who had never made a start before in his brief NFL career.