NFL ref leaves Bills-Texans game after scary non-contact injury

Injuries person ravaged NFL teams passim the 2025 season, and connected Thursday nighttime the contented struck NFL officials during the Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans game.

Head referee Adrian Hill pulled up lame during a play connected a Texans thrust successful the 3rd quarter. He was seen successful the extremity portion watching a play unfold. As helium started to move, Hill grabbed his near leg.

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Referee Adrian Hill connected the tract during a crippled betwixt the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants astatine Soldier Field connected Nov. 9, 2025 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

Hill was helped disconnected the tract and needed to beryllium carted to the locker room. Umpire Roy Ellison took implicit arsenic the caput referee for the remainder of the game.

Hill has been an NFL authoritative since 2010, making his debut connected Sept. 12, 2010, successful a crippled betwixt the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys arsenic a enactment judge. He was promoted to a referee successful 2019 aft Pete Morelli and Walt Coleman retired.

Ellison is simply a longtime authoritative himself and has immoderate contention attached to his vocation successful the NFL.

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Buffalo Bills linebacker Terrel Bernard (8) is attended to by aesculapian unit aft suffering an chartless wounded successful the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Houston Texans Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, successful Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

In 2018, helium had a run-in with Bills antiaircraft lineman Jerry Hughes. The NFL subordinate confronted Ellison successful the passageway pursuing a crippled betwixt the Bills and Miami Dolphins. Hughes accused Ellison of calling him an expletive. Ellison was reportedly fined 1 crippled cheque for the incident.

Both teams were besides dealing with injuries during the game.

Bills backmost Josh Allen had to cheque retired aft being roughed up connected a play. Bills wide receiver Khalil Shakir, antiaircraft backmost Maxwell Hairston and violative lineman Dion Dawkins were each evaluated for a concussion. Bills linebacker Terrel Bernard suffered an elbow wounded and was retired for the remainder of the game.

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The Texans were playing without backmost C.J. Stroud arsenic good arsenic information Jalen Pitre, who were some injured.

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