Archives for May 3, 2016

'Size, speed, and strength are all well and good, but for an edge rusher teams look for a player who will never give up in their pursuit for a quarterback. Here in the national championship against Alabama, you see Lawson do just that. His initial move was thwarted, but he kept his eyes on the quarterback, kept the offensive lineman off of his pads, disengaged and brought down the quarterback.'

'According to CBS Sports' Joel Corry , picking up the option would have cost Buffalo $11.357 million. He's due a guaranteed $2.22 million in base salary this season.'

'The Bills released DE Jarius Wynn, CB Bud Noel and OL Ronald Patrick.'

'The Bills agreed to terms with 14 undrafted rookies Monday. Below is a brief description of the newest additions to Buffalo’s roster with some expert assessments from the Bills scouting staff.'

'“I was doing summer school to try to avoid it, but the NCAA didn’t count the class I took at summer school so when I found out I had to go to Hargrave I was in tears at first,” admitted Lawson. “I was thinking that this is going to be like boot camp. There were going to be a lot of crazy things I’d have to do.”'

'“We are basically lining up in a 5-2, to start with,” he said. “You’re going to have Jerry Hughes and Shaq Lawson as your outside linebackers (though virtually ends, with Preston Brown and second-round draft pick Reggie Ragland inside). When you have that, you’re going to have three big ones inside. So any way we configure it, we have four guys that will be primarily in there with obviously Corbin, the young kid Washington and then our two studs with Kyle and Marcell.'