NFL referee leaves game after non-contact injury

Accidents have plagued NFL groups all through the 2025 season, and the problem hit NFL officers Thursday night time through the Buffalo Payments-Houston Texans sport.

Head referee Adrian Hill made a lame cease on a play on a Texans drive within the third quarter. He was seen ultimately zone watching a play unfold. As he started to maneuver, Hill grabbed his left leg.

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Referee Adrian Hill on the sector throughout a sport between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants at Soldier Subject on November 9, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Photos)

Hill was helped off the sector and needed to be taken to the locker room. Umpire Roy Ellison took over as head referee for the rest of the match.

Hill has been an NFL official since 2010 and made his debut on September 12, 2010 in a sport between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys as a line choose. He was promoted to referee in 2019 after Pete Morelli and Walt Coleman retired.

Ellison is a longtime official himself and there was some controversy related along with his profession within the NFL.

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Buffalo Payments linebacker Terrel Bernard, 8, is attended to by medical personnel after struggling an undisclosed harm within the second half of an NFL soccer sport towards the Houston Texans on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Houston. (AP Picture/Ashley Landis)

In 2018, he had an altercation with Payments defensive lineman Jerry Hughes. The NFL participant confronted Ellison within the tunnel after a sport between the Payments and Miami Dolphins. Hughes accused Ellison of calling him an expletive. Ellison was reportedly fined one sport verify for the incident.

Each groups additionally handled accidents through the match.

Payments quarterback Josh Allen had to take a look at after being harassed throughout a play. Payments large receiver Khalil Shakir, defensive again Maxwell Hairston and offensive lineman Dion Dawkins had been every assessed for concussion. Payments linebacker Terrel Bernard suffered an elbow harm and was out for the remainder of the sport.

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The Texans performed with out quarterback C.J. Stroud and security Jalen Pitre, each of whom suffered accidents.

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