The Bills are getting training camp underway at their team facility in Orchard Park. That alone signals things are different.
In a typical offseason, the Bills are getting after it in Rochester for camp. Instead, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the team is at home in OP for safety reasons. Among those measures includes waiting until later this month to get on the field and in pads for practices.
So maybe this 53-man roster projection is a bit too early, but let’s give it a crack anyway. Here’s a roster prediction for the Bills as the team gets training camp underway:
Quarterback (3)
Josh Allen, Matt Barkley, Jake Fromm
Cuts: Davis Webb
Earlier this offseason the Bills were in a position to potentially keep two quarterbacks and cut Matt Barkley. He’s no longer really a “veteran” mentor to Allen, games played wise. Allen has 27 starts to Barkley’s seven. Cutting Barkley could also save the Bills $1.5M against the salary cap.
But that was months ago. We’ve since lost all sense of normalcy and preseason games. It would be insane for the Bills to go into a season with Jake Fromm as QB2, at least right away, considering he’ll have never played in an NFL game at all before then thanks to the cancelled exhibition games. At least Fromm has big-time college experience from Georgia, though.
Jake Fromm dropped this one right in the bucket 🎯 pic.twitter.com/TnpUhn0Rbn
— ESPN (@espn) January 2, 2020