Bills Rookie Tracks Down Homeless Man Who Returned His Wallet — What He Did Next Moved Buffalo to Tears
October 23, 2025 – Buffalo, New York
For Ray Davis, the Buffalo Bills’ rookie running back, it began as a moment of panic — and ended as a lesson in humanity.
Last Thursday, after a long day of team meetings, Davis realized he had lost his wallet somewhere between the facility and downtown Buffalo. Inside were his ID, credit cards, and nearly $600 in cash — money he’d planned to send home to his younger sister. “My heart sank,” Davis said. “I retraced every step, but it was gone.”
The next morning, the wallet showed up at the Bills’ front office. No name, no note — just a message scribbled on a napkin: “Found this near the bus stop. Hope it gets back to him.”
Security footage later revealed who had dropped it off: a local homeless man named David Collins, known around the area for collecting cans and sleeping near the Elmwood underpass. When Davis learned that Collins had walked two miles through the rain to return it — and refused the small cash reward left at the front desk — he couldn’t let it go.
Two days later, after the team’s walkthrough, Davis drove downtown and found Collins near a soup kitchen on Broadway Avenue. Witnesses say Davis stepped out of his truck, walked straight toward the man, and handed him a new winter coat and an envelope. Inside was $5,000 in cash and a handwritten note that read:
“You reminded me that doing right doesn’t depend on what you have. Thank you for showing me what real strength looks like.”
Collins reportedly tried to refuse the money, but Davis insisted. “He kept saying, ‘You don’t owe me anything,’” Davis recalled. “I told him, ‘Then let me do this for someone who would’ve done the same for me.’” Head coach Sean McDermott called it “a moment that defines what Buffalo stands for.”
In a league often defined by contracts and headlines, Ray Davis’s quiet act of gratitude reminded everyone that compassion, like football, is best played face-to-face — one heart at a time.
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