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Aug 7 (The Sports Xchange) - The Buffalo Bills signed linebacker Brandon Spikes to a one-year contract Sunday after he was out of the NFL for a year.

Spikes, 28, last played in the NFL for the Bills in 2014. He was set to rejoin the New England Patriots in 2015 but was released last June as police investigated his role in a hit-and-run crash in Massachusetts. Spikes later pleaded guilty to multiple motor vehicle charges and received probation.

The NFL suspended Spikes for the first four games of the 2015 regular season but he spent the year out of football.