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.

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