Top 50 Buffalo Bills
Say what you want about the Buffalo Bills in the early 1990s.At the end of the day, there was only one professional football team that went to the Super Bowl four years in a row, and while they did not win any of them or any Super Bowls for that matter, the accomplishment of getting there four times consecutively should be celebrated.
The history of the Buffalo Bills dates back to 1960, where they were charter members of the American Football League and were part of the AFL/NFL merger. This list will include AFL accomplishments, and it is forgotten that the Bills were two-time AFL Champions (1964 and 1965).
This list is up to the end of the 2022 regular season.
Note: Football lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics and post-season accolades.
A ten-year NFL veteran, all spent with the Buffalo Bills, Ben Williams made history in college as the first black football player for the University of Mississippi. As a professional, Williams would make the Pro Bowl in 1982 and was an effective pass-rusher who recorded 45.5 Sacks.
LeSean McCoy played his first six seasons in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he won the Rushing Title in 2013. McCoy and the Eagles management and coaching were not on the same page (as evident by comments by McCoy), and he was traded to the Buffalo Bills to be their lead Running Back.
Bryce Paup played the first five seasons of his career with the Green Bay Packers, and while he was considered a good player, it was considered a catastrophic loss when he signed with the Buffalo Bills as a Free Agent in 1995. As it turned out, Paup would have one of the best years of his life as a Bill,…
Playing the first ten of his eleven seasons with the Buffalo BiFrench-born born Cornerback, Charles Romes never missed a game as a Bill. Romes would net 28 Interceptions over his Bills career (1977-86).
Undrafted out of college, and having to go through NFL Europe, Fred Jackson did not make his NFL debut until 2007 when he was 26. Despite that late start, Jackson made an impact with the Buffalo Bills and would exceed 1,000 Yards From Scrimmage five times as a Bill, and he was the NFL leader in All-Purpose Yards in 2009.
Having the honor of being the first player in NFL history to score 80 Yard+ Touchdowns in one quarter, Lee Evans was a decent Wide Receiver who played all but one of his NFL seasons with the Buffalo Bills. Evans would twice go over 1,000 Yards Receiving in a season and had over 6,000 Yards from Scrimmage as a Bill.…
Stefon Diggs played five good years with the Minnesota Vikings to begin his career, but thinking they had depth in the WR position, they traded him to Buffalo in 2020 for four Draft Picks. It was the best thing that could have happened to Diggs. Diggs had a previous high single-season high of 1,130 Yards, but with Josh Allen as…
A first round draft pick out of Arizona, John Fina would become a solid Offensive Tackle for the Buffalo Bills. Fina would spend ten years with Buffalo, with one final year in the league as an Arizona Cardinal.
In 2002, Mario Williams was the first overall pick in the draft, and he played his first four seasons in football with the team that drafted him, the Houston Texans. Williams played well there, but he arguably equalled his individual success as a Buffalo Bill.
Tre’Davious White was an All-American at LSU, and was one of the top Cornerbacks in the 2017 Draft, taken with the 27thOverall Pick by the Buffalo Bills.
Robert James did not have a long career in the National Football League, but all six of his campaigns were spent with the Buffalo Bills. In the final three years he spent in the NFL, James was named to the Pro Bowl, two of which saw him earning a spot on the First Team All-Pro roster. A career-ending knee…
Tremaine Edmunds came to the NFL in 2018 from Virgina Tech as a First Round Pick to the Buffalo Bills and like the Bills hoped would provide a strong presence in the defensive interior for years.Edmunds wasn't an All-Rookie, (although he had a good year), bit his second and third years were amongst the best in franchise history of any…