The Bills and Quinton Spain are going to reunite in 2020. According to the lineman himself, he’s going to re-sign with the once the NFL’s free agency period opens next week.
Spain signed a one-year “prove-it” deal last offseason and certainly proved it. In regard to the move, there’s a few things to consider for the Bills, including the trickle-down effect from it.
Here are five takeaways from the Bills’ decision to bring back Spain:
Man of his word
Before getting into the deep dive here, Spain said it and did it. Typically when a player is a pending free agent, he’ll say there’s interest in returning. Who ever really knows the truth, though? But not only did Spain say he would return to Buffalo, he said if the deal was right, he’d return even without testing free agency, which is exactly what happened.
Here’s what Spain said during locker cleanout day:
“I told my agent, if (the Bills) really, really want me and want me to be here, I would like to get something done before free agency started.”
And credit where credit is due, Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane, not citing Spain specifically, is kind of a man of his word as well.
“If you have a guy that you want, whatever player it is, you’d love to go ahead and get something done before they get to free agency,” Beane said earlier this offseason. “Any guy that says, ‘I definitely want to be here,’ and we can be on the same page of their value that we want, we’d love to go ahead and get them done as soon as possible.”