Buffalo Bills: 53-man roster prediction before training camp

This is what the Buffalo Bills 53-man roster may look like Week 1 when the Bills take on the New York Jets.

General manager Brandon Beane deserves a lot of credit with the difficulty in predicting this year’s 53-man roster for the Buffalo Bills. Each offseason he continues to draft and sign free agents that push players off the roster. He has constructed a roster where there are difficult decisions at nearly every position. That is a great place to be in during a roster rebuild. Perhaps the heavy lifting of the rebuild is done and after this season the focus will shift to keeping the roster fresh and not complacent.

As rookies expected to report for training camp on Tuesday, this gives us one last opportunity to examine the roster and predict who lands on the final roster before training camp begins.

Quarterback

Josh Allen and Matt Barkley are both locks and entrenched in their roles. The question here is whether 2020 fifth rounder Jake Fromm can crack the roster. Given his draft selection position he will be gutted there was no offseason to display to the coaching staff what he can add to the QB room. The importance of training camp is that much more in 2020 since this will be the first on-field instructions for players since January. Snaps will need to go to starters and back-ups so they are in game shape and sharpness come week 1.

Helping his case during this time is that if a team loses its quarterback, it would be difficult to bring in a free agent off the street and get them up to speed. However, due to the offseason story in which Fromm used insensitive language in a private text message that later become public it could help the Bills in stashing him on the practice squad without fear of another team claiming him.

Predictions: Allen and Barkley (2)