Brandon Beane heard from the NFL league office last week after the Buffalo Bills general manager's comments during a radio interview about whether he would hypothetically release an unvaccinated player if it meant the team reaching a league-imposed minimum percentage of vaccinated individuals.

The message the league delivered to Beane, according to a source, was that a team may not release a player solely due to vaccination status.

During an interview on "One Bills Live" on Wednesday, Beane was presented a scenario in which the Bills were one player from reaching an undefined percentage of vaccinated players and was asked whether he would cut an unvaccinated player to return to normalcy.

Beane said he would, citing the advantage it would give the team.

"We're laughing, but these meetings [last season] were not as productive as before," Beane said. "You guys saw it in the field house -- sometimes we'd have three to four meetings going on, and sometimes you're talking over each other. But it was the only way to pull it off and be socially distanced.

"So it would be an advantage to cut a player and fall under that umbrella."