Clarification On Buffalo Bills Free Agent Class

by Brian Galliford on Feb 28, 2011 1:45 PM EST in Buffalo Bills News

It's been speculated for some time that once a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is in place and NFL free agency begins, players with four or more accrued seasons would be unrestricted free agents. (In 2010, the uncapped year, unrestricted free agency did not begin until the sixth accrued season for veterans.) Peter King of Sports Illustrated is the latest voice to lend credence to that idea in his latest MMQB column.

We've still had many questions, however, about which Buffalo Bills players will be restricted or unrestricted once free agency begins. This is the best answer we can provide you today, and it's based off of data supplied by Chris Brown of BuffaloBills.com just this morning.

Players that will be unrestricted: ILB Akin Ayodele, CB Drayton Florence

Players that are expected to be unrestricted (4-5 accrued seasons): OT Mansfield Wrotto, DE John McCargo, ILB Paul Posluszny, ILB Keith Ellison, CB Ashton Youboty, S Donte Whitner, S George Wilson

Players that will be restricted: QB Brian Brohm, RB Quinton Ganther, WR Felton Huggins, TE Jonathan Stupar, TE Scott Chandler, LS Garrison Sanborn

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players they should bring back

poz wilson sansborn youbouty

where oh where has aaron maybin gone oh where can he be
was picked so high and not one has seen oh where can maybin be
seriously where the hell is he ?

by Gpluehri on Feb 28, 2011 1:49 PM EST reply actions

What has Youboty ever done?

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by MattRichWarren on Feb 28, 2011 2:16 PM EST up reply actions

That's

a rather personal question.

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by John H IL on Feb 28, 2011 2:43 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

That was hilarious.

I laughed out loud.

by As Smart as I Look on Feb 28, 2011 2:48 PM EST up reply actions

Rec’d for the witty remark.

by Eric Murawski on Feb 28, 2011 2:53 PM EST up reply actions

imo when he gets on the field he can play a solid nickle

Injuries and the depth of cb has hurt him a lot a 3 year contract isn’t that bad especially since he knows the system and can a late round rookie do better those 2 questions I would be asking myself if I were gm

where oh where has aaron maybin gone oh where can he be
was picked so high and not one has seen oh where can maybin be
seriously where the hell is he ?

by Gpluehri on Feb 28, 2011 2:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Anyone else think there's no way that Brohm is resigned?

"Slowly all the roles we act out become our identity. And in the end we are what we pretend to be." - Jerry Cantrell.

by stetzwebs on Feb 28, 2011 2:16 PM EST reply actions

Meh. If Tyler Thigpen becomes a free agent add him plus a rookie and I think you’re set.

Otherwise it’s Levi Brown and a rookie and I just don’t want that….

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by MattRichWarren on Feb 28, 2011 2:17 PM EST up reply actions

What's better about Brohm then?

Are you saying that you’d rather have Brohm involved if the other option is Brown and a rookie? Brohm has been awful as a pro, so why exactly would he be a better choice?

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by Kurupt on Feb 28, 2011 4:30 PM EST up reply actions

Ummm…. I want the Bills to add two QBs this offseason. Let’s just leave it at that.

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by MattRichWarren on Feb 28, 2011 8:47 PM EST up reply actions

I might be just a bitter fan but

I wouldn’t shed a tear if the Bills lost any or all of these guys to free agency. Except Poz, but that’s just cause I don’t wanna make enemies in this forum :) There isn’t anyone on the list who is irreplaceable.

by The Adam Bomb on Feb 28, 2011 2:44 PM EST reply actions

I understand the sediment. Most of them are expendable because of production. The fact is that they do have to be replaced and to think all of them can be replaced with more substantial upgrades is unrealistic. You do have to fill a roster.

by As Smart as I Look on Feb 28, 2011 2:51 PM EST up reply actions

I’d also add Drayton Florence to that list. I’d even throw in Keith Ellison, as I find him to be more of a player than anyone around these parts is willing to sign up for.

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by TheAfghanTwilight on Feb 28, 2011 2:52 PM EST up reply actions

not exactly a cast of stars

I agree…no tears to be shed here. Poz and Wilson are a couple of guys you’d like to have back, but wouldn’t lose a nanosecond of sleep if they left. I guess that;s the good thing about being a Bills fan, parting isn’t such swet sorrow. Of course, if replacements make us wish otherwise, then this franchise will really be heading for the crapper.

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by NJBill on Feb 28, 2011 4:37 PM EST up reply actions

Florence, Sanborn and Poz........

everyone else………good luck having great careers with other teams.

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by norcaliangelsfan on Feb 28, 2011 3:46 PM EST reply actions

Poz, Sanborn, Wilson
good roleplayers in Wilson and Sanborn and a solid player in Poz who has potential to be a top 5 guy.

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by Jcksn22 on Feb 28, 2011 4:28 PM EST reply actions

I'm not sure I would use "credence" to describe anything about Peter King

I had thought all along that I wouldn’t use anything from our conversation until this week, after I had seen him at the combine and, hopefully, got to spend a little more time with him. When we got off the phone, I began to think about what he’d said. I knew it would be something that would raise eyebrows among NFL teams, who like their prospects to be single-minded, not entering the league thinking about anything except being the best player they can be

I wasn’t gonna use this quote. But then I thought, WAIT! This could really [screw] Cam Newton over if I run it with no context whatsoever! As a journalician, I knew immediately what I had to do.

I thought if anyone else in the lineup asked him about the Under Armour deal, he’d probably say the same "entertainer and icon" thing. I didn’t want to make a news story out of it…

But let’s make a news story out of it!

…but I did want to get it out that he’d told me this, so I sent it out to my 510,000 followers on Twitter.

I didn’t want this to become some big THING, you know? So all I did was tell half a million people about it. SECRET: KEPT.

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by perkispower on Feb 28, 2011 4:50 PM EST reply actions