The 7-1 Bills trade a second-round pick for Amani Hooker, the safety with the NFL's most interceptions

The Buffalo Bills traded for Tennessee Titans safety Amani Hooker on Tuesday, the day after their 23-6 win in Minnesota moved them to 7-1. Tom Pelissero of The Ringer and Netflix reported the trade first.

Buffalo sends a second-round pick to Tennessee and gets Hooker and a fifth-round pick back, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

What Buffalo is getting

Hooker is 28 and has spent all eight of his NFL seasons with the Titans, who drafted him in the fourth round in 2019. His five interceptions lead the NFL this season, according to ESPN, and he also has 52 tackles and six pass breakups in his first year in Robert Saleh's defense. Schefter noted that three of those interceptions came in his last game, against Joe Burrow and the Bengals.

Across 103 career games and 74 starts, Hooker has 17 interceptions, 45 passes defensed and five forced fumbles, per Pro Football Talk. He can play either safety spot, ESPN reported, and he is under contract through 2028 with a 2026 cap hit of about $12 million.

Why the Bills needed him

Safety has been Buffalo's soft spot all year. The team signed C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a $6 million deal to fix it and released him earlier this month, after a one-game suspension for spitting at an opponent in Week 6, according to ESPN. Damar Hamlin has started the last two games next to Cole Bishop since then.

The Bills' secondary ranked among the league's worst through the first six games, ESPN reported. The last two performances were much better, 10 points allowed to Baltimore and six to Minnesota, but both came against backup quarterbacks in Joe Fagnano and Carson Wentz.

Tennessee also traded defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons to Chicago on Oct. 29, so both of its 2019 draft picks who had spent their whole careers with the Titans are now gone.

Hooker could debut Sunday when Buffalo visits the Jets at 1 p.m. ET on CBS.