The Buffalo Bills don’t have very many defensive tackles under contract for 2022. Vernon Butler, Justin Zimmer, and Harrison Phillips are all scheduled to be free agents after the current NFL year has concluded in March, leaving Ed Oliver and Star Lotulelei as the only defensive tackles currently rostered who have contracts extending into or past 2022. Even if the Bills were not a team heavily invested in rotating their interior defensive linemen, it would be a position group in serious need of bodies before the next NFL season kicks off.
Most would assume that the amount of times Vernon Butler has been a healthy inactive this year would indicate he will not be a candidate for re-signing with the Bills.