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Buffalo Bills head coach Joe Brady and QB Josh Allen<\/p>\n
The Buffalo Bills<\/a> have not drafted a quarterback since the 2020 season, but that could change this year as the team aims to find a long-term backup to Josh Allen.<\/p>\n The Bills have rotated through a set of familiar backups for Allen, with Mitch Trubisky and Kyle Allen both serving two tenures. The Bills have not tried to develop their own backup quarterback since a largely failed experiment with Jake Fromm, who spent a little more than a season with the Bills without ever seeing the field.<\/p>\n SI.com analyst Ralph Ventre<\/a> predicted that could change this year, with several potential options available to the Bills through next week\u2019s NFL<\/a> draft, including an intriguing prospect from FCS.<\/p>\n Bills Connected to FCS Star<\/p>\n Ventre pegged Monmouth quarterback Derek Robertson as a good option for the Bills, noting that he led the FCS in passing yards per game over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter his 2025 Walter Payton award candidacy was derailed by a mid-season wrist injury that required surgery on his non-throwing hand, the gritty field general fought his way back onto the field in time for the FCS Playoffs, only to see a nine-win Monmouth team snubbed by the selection committee,\u201d Ventre wrote.<\/p>\n Ventre added that Robertson doesn\u2019t have the prototypical tools for an NFL quarterback, but could develop into a useful backup.<\/p>\n \u201cRobertson, who stands a fraction under 6-foot-2, has above-average arm strength, and the cerebral passer made a habit of throwing receivers open during his time at the Jersey Shore,\u201d Ventre wrote. \u201cWhether it\u2019s late in the draft, or as a priority free agent, some team is going to get the perfect developmental backup.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tNathan Dougherty<\/a> is a sports reporter covering the NFL for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Miami Dolphins. Previously he wrote for the Rochester Business Journal and served as the assistant editor of athletic trade magazines Coaching Management, Athletic Management and Training & Conditioning. He is based out of Rochester, New York, and loves everything football. More about Nathan Dougherty<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Bills\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Buffalo Bills head coach Joe Brady and QB Josh Allen The Buffalo Bills have not drafted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-869460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116427975256888996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869460","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=869460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}