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