{"id":244512,"date":"2025-08-31T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=244512"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:03:16","slug":"buffalo-bills-lose-dt-dewayne-carter-for-the-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/08\/31\/buffalo-bills-lose-dt-dewayne-carter-for-the-2025-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills Lose DT DeWayne Carter for the 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/bills\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> open the 2025 NFL season next Sunday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/ravens\/\" target=\"_self\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, a rematch of the 2024 Divisional playoffs. The Bills received bad news today: Buffalo defensive tackle DeWayne Carter is out for 2025 due to an Achilles tendon tear. Carter&#8217;s injury comes on the heels of an injury-shortened season for the young defensive tackle after suffering a wrist injury in 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The injury was confirmed earlier today by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NFL insider Jordan Schultz.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Bills<\/a> DT DeWayne Carter tore his Achilles and will miss the entire 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The talented 2024 3rd-round pick was poised to be part of Buffalo\u2019s defensive rotation this year. A tough blow. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J9fF1tz2vL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/J9fF1tz2vL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1962268093419335955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>The Buffalo Bills drafted Carter in the 3rd round of the NFL draft in 2024. \u00a0During the 2024 season, Carter played in 11 games on the Bills&#8217; defensive line. \u00a0For the 2024 season, Carter recorded 11 solo tackles, 3 assists, one deflected pass, and three quarterback hurries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During the offseason, Bills GM Brandon Beane talked positively about Carter, and according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/bills\/news\/roster-dewayne-carter-second-year-dt-back-with-a-purpose-after-postseason-benching-brandon-beane\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> article, Beane said, &#8220;I think DeWayne&#8217;s come back with a purpose.&#8221; Beane also added, &#8220;He&#8217;s been here a lot this offseason, and I think he&#8217;s working hard.&#8221; However, just before the start of the next season, Carter suffered a torn Achilles tendon, which will prevent him from contributing to the Bills&#8217; defense.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243266\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243266 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/dewayne-carter-trade-candidate-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"dewayne carter trade candidate\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/dewayne-carter-trade-candidate-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/dewayne-carter-trade-candidate-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/dewayne-carter-trade-candidate-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/dewayne-carter-trade-candidate.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main Photo: Tina MacIntyre-Yee\/Democrat and Chronicle-USA TODAY NETWORK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 6&#8217;3&#8243;, 305-pound Carter spent five seasons at Duke University and played in 52 games for the Blue Devils. Carter achieved significant success at Duke with 48 solo tackles, 78 assists, and 12 quarterback sacks. If Carter&#8217;s collegiate performance is indicative of future success, he could eventually develop into a role that allows him to consistently contribute to the Buffalo defense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Carter&#8217;s season-ending injury leaves the Bills with only two active defensive tackles, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?s=Ed+Oliver\" target=\"_self\">Ed Oliver<\/a> and T.J. Sanders. What was a strong position group for the Bills now needs additional depth. As Buffalo prepares this week to face the Baltimore Ravens, we will need to monitor this situation to see if the Bills sign a player to replace Carter or promote someone from their practice roster.<\/div>\n<p>Follow me on X:\u00a0 <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronSauter7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AaronSauter7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: [Mark Konezny] &#8211; Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bills received bad news today: Buffalo defensive tackle DeWayne Carter is out for 2025 due to an Achilles tendon tear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5626,"featured_media":244546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[10073,174,2461,177,32475,33712,4444,40,33183],"class_list":["post-244512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-bills","tag-2024-nfl-draft","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-brandon-beane","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-dewayne-carter","tag-duke-university","tag-ed-oliver","tag-nfl","tag-t-j-sanders"],"modified_by":"Michael Zimmelman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244512"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244548,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244512\/revisions\/244548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}