Who is Buffalo at risk of losing after its successful 2019 season?
By Nick Wojton / Billswire.usatoday.com
Simple, sweet, straight forward.
Who are the Bills at risk of losing after their successful 2019 campaign which included a second trip to the playoffs in three years? Free agency can ruin a team if their front office, in the Bills’ case led by Brandon Beane, doesn’t make the right decisions.
First, free agents come in three different forms.
The most common is an unrestricted free agent that can either re-sign or test the open market.
Restricted free agents are players who can be tendered contracts by other teams, but their current team can match the offer and keep them. Or they can just re-sign or be allowed to walk by their current organization.
An exclusive-rights free agent can only become a free agent if their team decides to let them do so. The Bills could tender these players a contract for the league minimum and the player has to accept it, or sit out a season.
Here’s the full list for the Bills:
Unrestricted free agents
RB Frank Gore
Age: 36, 15th season
2019 stats: 16 GP, 599 rushing yards, 2 TDs
DE Shaq Lawson
Age: 25, 4th season
2019 stats: 15 GP, 32 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 17 TFLs, 2 passes defended
LB Maurice Alexander
Age: 28, 5th season
2019 stats: 7 GP, 11 tackles
S Kurt Coleman
Age: 31, 10th season
2019 stats: 14 GP, 3 tackles
CB Kevin Johnson
Age: 27, 5th season
2019 states: 16 GP, 36 tackles, 1 sack, 5 passes defended
S Dean Marlowe
Age: 27, 3rd season
2019 stats: 9 GP, 11 tackles, 1 pass defended
RB/ ST Senorise Perry
Age: 28, 5th season
2019 states: 11 GP, 6 tackles
DT Jordan Phillips
Age: 27, 5th season
2019 stats: 31 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 15 TFLs
OL Quinton Spain
Age: 28, 5th season
2019 stats: 16 GP, 55.9 PFF grade
LB/ ST Julian Stanford
Age: 29, 6th season
2019 states: 16 GP, 8 tackles
OL LaAdrian Waddle
Age: 28, 7th season
2019 stats: 0 GP
Exclusive rights free agents
WR Robert Foster
Age: 25, 2nd season
2019 stats: 13 GP, 3 catches, 6 receiving yards
CB Levi Wallace
Age: 24, 2nd season
2019 stats: 16 GP, 76 tackles, 9 passes defended, 2 INTs
TE Jason Croom
Age: 25, 2nd season
2019 stats: 0 GP
Notes:
LB Lorenzo Alexander was an unrestricted free agent, but retired.