{"id":118743,"date":"2025-06-10T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118743\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:17:09","slug":"90-buffalo-bills-players-in-90-days-qb-mike-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/118743\/","title":{"rendered":"90 Buffalo Bills players in 90 days: QB Mike White"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> have one of the NFL\u2019s best quarterbacks on their roster. They also have a former first-round draft pick who understands their system well to serve as the backup for said elite quarterback. That sounds like there isn\u2019t much room for anyone else to break into a quarterback room, right?<\/p>\n

As coach Lee Corso would say, \u201cNot so fast, my friend.\u201d Thanks to the realities of the salary cap, there is always a chance that some shuffling occurs in the ranks of the reserves in order to create more room for additions elsewhere. At quarterback, the Bills have a chance to save some cash on the 2025 salary cap by shuffling their quarterback room. Will they do it?<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s installment of our \u201c90 players in 90 days\u201d series, we profile the current QB3, a player who needs to show that he can handle emergency snaps well enough to make QB2 expendable.<\/p>\n

Name: Mike White<\/p>\n

Number: 14<\/p>\n

Position: QB <\/p>\n

Height\/Weight: 6\u20195\u201d, 220 pounds<\/p>\n

Age: 30 (31 on 3\/25\/2026)<\/p>\n

Experience\/Draft: 6; selected by the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> in the fifth round (No. 171 overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n

College: Western Kentucky<\/p>\n

Acquired: Signed with Bills\u2019 practice squad on 8\/28\/2024<\/p>\n

Financial situation (per Spotrac): White signed to Buffalo\u2019s active roster on January 3, 2025, and the team gave him a one-year contract through the 2025 season shortly thereafter. For this year, he\u2019ll make $1.195 million if he\u2019s on the 53-man roster. The contract includes no guaranteed money, so the Bills can release him prior to Week 1 without a dead-cap charge. As a vested veteran, his salary becomes fully guaranteed after Week 1 if he\u2019s on the roster for that game. <\/p>\n

2024 Recap: White spent the season on Buffalo\u2019s practice squad, only appearing in one game \u2014 the regular-season finale. Prior to that last game, he was elevated from the practice squad for the Bills\u2019 December 1 game against the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, but he was inactive. Against the New England Patriots<\/a> in that final, meaningless regular-season game, White completed three passes on 11 attempts for a total of 28 yards.<\/p>\n

Positional outlook: White joins former No. 2 overall pick Mitchell Trubisky and reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen in the quarterback room. Shane Buechele is also on the 90-man roster.<\/p>\n

2025 Offseason: White has attended all voluntary offseason workouts to date.<\/p>\n

2025 Season outlook: Entering camp, White is clearly slotted in as QB3. The question becomes whether the Bills think Trubisky\u2019s presence is more valuable, or the $2.5 million they\u2019d save by releasing him. Given that they\u2019d need to replace Trubisky with White, the actual cap savings to go from Trubisky to White comes in at $1.305 million. Is that enough to necessitate a change?<\/p>\n

The answer to that question really lies in whether you think Trubisky provides a substantially better chance at holding down the fort in the event of an injury to Josh Allen than does White. For what it\u2019s worth, I think Trubisky is significantly better than White is, so unless the team finds itself in dire straits financially, swapping out their backup quarterbacks feels like money for nothing.<\/p>\n

White is very likely to see plenty of action this preseason, and there is an outside chance that he could unseat Trubisky for a spot on the 53-man roster. However, if everyone in the QB room is healthy, I expect that they\u2019ll look to retain either White or Buechele as their practice-squad quarterback, with Allen and Trubisky serving as the active players on game days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills have one of the NFL\u2019s best quarterbacks on their roster. They also have a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[27558,215,10466,214,53,2091,2086,7160,7,29,723,1458,6,1875,1293,1621,2637],"class_list":{"0":"post-118743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-90-players-in-90-days","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-bills-news-notes","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-buffalo-bills-roster","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-days","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-mike","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-players","22":"tag-qb","23":"tag-rumblings","24":"tag-white"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114659265729114261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}