Buffalo Bills Cut LS Ryan Neil And Sign LB Solomon Elimimian

In a move that came sooner than expected, veteran long snapper Ryan Neil was waived by the Bills on Wednesday following the conclusion by the team's training camp at St. John Fisher. Neil was in a heated battle with rookie long snapper Garrison sandborn, who impressed enough during a three day tryout at Buffalo Bills mini-camp to be offered a contract. By the close of training camp Wednesday, Sandborn performed so well that he convinced the Bills coaching staff that Neil was expendable. The competition between the two specialist appeared to be a dead heat throughout training camp with many observers feeling that it would be a roster position that would go down to the end of preseason. Sanborn consistent accuracy matched that of Neil and he appeared to have superior velocity on his long and short snaps. Bills Head Coach Dick Jauron paid very close attention to special teams drills when long and short snaps were part of the special teams segment, even timing the splits from snap to kick on field goals and punts with a stopwatch. Neil had controversially replaced Pro Bowl long snapper Mike Schneck. Dick Jauron had said at the time that the team was making a investment in Neil. The Buffalo Bills sign Solomon Elimimian (6'0 225) was the WAC co-Defensive Player Of The Year as a senior for Hawaii in 2008 and finished his career as the school all-time leading tackler with 434. He has experience as a outside and middle linebacker. The Bills looked as though they would be down in numbers at linebacker this weekend for there preseason game against the Packers on Saturday. Both Ashlee Palmer and Pat Thomas remained sidelined with injuries and both are not expected to play against Green Bay this weekend.