The Bills and Rams gave fans one of the wildest finishes of the season Monday night, and the drama didn’t stop when the final whistle blew.
Buffalo’s 37-34 overtime win set off a postgame scene that quickly turned ugly during a jersey exchange. Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson was swapping jerseys with Buffalo’s Deone Walker when Bradley Chubb started jawing at him.
Jackson didn’t ignore it. He walked right up to Chubb, got in his face, and the two began yelling at each other before Jackson threw a sucker-punch that appeared to connect with Chubb’s face.
Teammates rushed in to separate the two players, but by then the moment had already gone well past a heated exchange. Jackson’s punch was blatant enough that an NFL look is easy to see coming, especially with suspension precedent already on the books. During the 2025 season, Lions safety Brian Branch was suspended one game for sparking a postgame fight after a loss to the Chiefs on Oct. 12, 2025 - exactly one year before Jackson’s punch.
Jackson also has prior league discipline on his record. He was suspended for two games in 2024 for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.
The league would also have to sort through Chubb’s role in the exchange, and postgame video suggested he was talking trash broadly, not only at Jackson.
After leaving the field, Chubb addressed the incident.
"Just emotions. You know what I mean," Chubb said of what happened, via the California Post.
"Emotional game. It was a close game.
They always catch the second guy, so I let him swing and my teammates held me back, so I just chilled."
Asked whether he was targeting someone specific, Chubb made it clear the chirping wasn’t limited to one Ram.
"It was just the whole team," Chubb said.
On the stat sheet, Chubb finished with two tackles. On the scoreboard, though, Buffalo got the only result that mattered.
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