With the Buffalo Bills thin at wide receiver and C.J. Spiller not getting a ton of touches, there have been suggestions of having him line up wide.

"Put him at wide receiver?" responded Doug Marrone when asked on WGR-AM Friday morning. "Well I think in the backfield it's much easier to hand him the football than it is to throw him the football, especially vertically down the field. Intermediate throws I have no problem, (or) screens, intermediate routes, but it's really difficult to push that ball downfield to running backs at any position."

Spiller lined up at wide receiver in 2011 against the Giants and caught five passes for 39 yards.

The Bills will likely use more multiple tight end sets and use Spiller as a receiver out of the backfield.

The Buffalo Bills were given a 24-hour extension to sell the remaining 3,500 tickets for Sunday's game against the New York Jets.

“It is not likely that the game will be sold out,” Bills President and CEO Russ Brandon acknowledged Monday afternoon. “It’s going to be difficult to reach that level of sales in the remaining three days, but we’re not going to stop working until Sunday, to try to get as many people in the building as we can.”

The NFL has not had any blackouts this season.

C.J. Spiller's ankle injury remains an issue.

Spiller played in just 29 percent of offensive snaps last week.

"[Sunday] it was still not where I wanted to be. We'll just continue to do the things we need to do," Spiller said. "[I'm] very close. I don't want to say, but I'm close." 

Spiller suffered a high ankle sprain in Week 4.

"It's getting better. I'm able to practice more throughout the week. It's reacting well. I just have to continue to do the things I've been doing to get back to where I need to be," Spiller said. 

The Buffalo Bills have released Matt Flynn.

The Bills have activated E.J. Manuel.