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The Buffalo Bills have brought back an old quarterback friend.

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Shane Buechele is going to spend another offseason with the Bills.

According to The Athletic’s Joe Buscaglia, the Bills have signed Buechele back to their roster. It’s a reserve/futures contract that allows Buechele to spend the offseason program with Buffalo.

Buechele spent most of this season on the Bills’ practice squad.

But after the Kansas City Chiefs lost Patrick Mahomes and Gardner Minshew to injury, they signed Buechele to their active roster to be the backup to Chris Oladokun.

In Week 18, Buechele came on in relief of Oladokun. It was his regular season NFL debut. He completed 7-of-14 passes.

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The Chiefs cut Buechele after their season ended, though, which was likely always the plan. They just needed him for the late-season insurance after already being eliminated from the playoffs.

Buechele did then return to the Bills’ practice squad in the playoffs. But a practice squad player becomes a free agent as soon as the season ends.

That did give Buechele a chance, if he wanted, to sign elsewhere.

But he knows the QB room in Buffalo, with offensive coordinator Joe Brady now promoted to head coach, and he’s got a good relationship with Josh Allen.

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That makes it very logical to keep Buechele around. No reason to mess with the vibes in the depths of the quarterbacks on the roster.

Buechele likely will never start a regular season game of consequence for the Bills, but he’s not bad to have around.

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