Buffalo Bills: 8 worst moves made by the franchise during the drought era

The JP Losman experiment

After a 6-10 season in 2003, the Bills were looking to move on from Drew Bledsoe at quarterback. Bledsoe had put up decent numbers the year before but tool a league-high 49 sacks. The Bills held the 13th overall pick and after the Steelers took Ben Roethlisberger 11th the Top 3 QB’s (Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, Roethlisberger) were all off the board. So the Bills stuck with their board and took WR Lee Evans at 13th overall.

Still, in need of a quarterback the Bills traded back into the first round. They acquired the 22nd overall pick from Dallas for their second and fifth-rounder that year and their first-round pick the following year. Once the Bills were on the clock at 22 they used the pick to take QB JP Losman out of Tulane.

Losman had his leg broken by Bills safety Troy Vincent that Summer and played sparingly in his rookie season. In his second season, Losman completed less than 50% of his passes and was benched early on. His third season in Buffalo would be his only as the full-time starter and he led the Bills to a 7-9 record, taking 47 sacks in the process.

The first round pick the Bills traded to Dallas for Losman would turn out to be the 20th overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft and the team would have had a chance to draft Aaron Rodgers, who was drafted 24th that year.