Buffalo Bills star Micah Hyde retires after 12 years in the NFL following Kansas City Chiefs loss

Buffalo Bills' Micah Hyde officially called clip connected his NFL vocation pursuing the franchise's AFC Championship defeat.

The Kansas City Chiefs prevented Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills from reaching the Super Bowl yet again with a 32-29 triumph successful the AFC Championship Sunday. 

And the playoff decision - the 4th successful 5 years to the Chiefs - proved to beryllium 1 excessively galore for 1 Bills prima arsenic the nonaccomplishment marked the last crippled of his NFL career. 

Allen and co. already find themselves down 1 teammate arsenic they cogwheel up for a comeback adjacent play arsenic Hyde has said helium is officially retiring astatine the property of 34. 

The information spent 7 of his 11 seasons successful the NFL successful Buffalo, playing a cardinal relation successful the Bills' resurgence arsenic Super Bowl contenders. 

Hyde, who spent his archetypal 4 seasons successful Green Bay, earned second-team All-Pro honors successful 2017 and 2021. 

He missed a bulk of the 2022 play with a terrible cervix injury. He started 14 games during the 2023 season, though helium missed 3 games due to the fact that of injury.

Hyde's status comes arsenic nary large astonishment fixed helium flirted with hanging his cleats up past year.  

He had planned to discontinue pursuing the extremity of past season, stating that helium did not privation to play for immoderate squad different than the Bills. 

He remained unsigned until December erstwhile helium rejoined Buffalo connected the signifier squad, lending his expertise to Damar Hamlin, Cole Bishop and Taylor Rapp. 

He didn't suit up astatine each this play but did bring his beingness to the locker room. 

Upon his instrumentality to the squad successful December, Hyde warned that the Bills' play careless of erstwhile it ended would beryllium his last. 

'After the past game, that (retirement) paper´s going to beryllium close present and it´s getting signed,' Hyde said. 'You tin warrant that, for sure.'