Buffalo Rumblings
Entering the 2025 NFL season, the Buffalo Bills are poised to bring back their entire starting offensive line. While individual talent is obviously a must for any professional athlete, with a positional grouping like an offensive line, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of cohesion in a group.
When you know exactly what the guy next to you is going to do, and you’ve played with those people for multiple years, it makes communication up front so much easier. When communication is good in an offensive line, it leads to great things. When the quarterback is already elite, it helps that his protection unit is, as well.
In today’s edition of “90 players in 90 days,” we discuss a big guard on the cusp of something great.
Name: O’Cyrus Torrence
Number: 64
Position: G
Height/Weight: 6’5”, 347 pounds
Age: 25 (26 on 1/20/2026
Experience/Draft: 3; selected by Buffalo in the second round (No. 59 overall) of the 2023 NFL Draft
College: Florida
Acquired: Second-round draft choice
Financial situation (per Spotrac): Torrence enters the third year of his four-year rookie contract, which is worth $6,220,978 overall. For the 2025 season, Torrence’s cap hit is $1,696,630 if he makes the 53-man roster, and the Bills will carry a dead-cap charge of $762,174 if he’s released or traded.
2024 Recap: Torrence once again appeared in all 17 of Buffalo’s games, starting the first 16 contests. The only reason he didn’t start in the regular-season finale is that the Bills were resting as many starters as they could, so he was replaced by Will Clapp at right guard.
Torrence graded out as one of the NFL’s worst guards per Pro Football Focus (PFF), with his overall grade coming in at just 54.9 for the season. That landed him at No. 99 out of 136 guards. In the postseason, his grade was 59.5, which was No. 13 out of 34 guards.
Given that Buffalo’s offensive line performed extremely well as a unit last season, allowing a league-low 19 sacks in 20 regular and postseason games, it’s hard to buy the team having a link so weak at an important position up front. Add in the fact that the Bills averaged 4,5 yards per rush, good for 11th overall, and achieved first downs on 28.5% of their carries — the fourth-highest rate in the league — and it highlights a big problem with trying to evaluate offensive line play.
Positional outlook: Torrence is one of four “guards-only” on the current roster. David Edwards, Rush Reimer, and Connor McGovern — who plays center — are the other players listed at guard. Sedrick Van Pran-Granger is listed as a guard-slash-center. Alec Anderson is listed as a tackle, but he plays center and guard, as well. Mike Edwards is listed as an offensive lineman, but he is primarily a guard. Tylan Grable is a tackle, but he has seen time inside, as well.
2025 Offseason: Torrence is playing right guard in camp and performing well. Joe Buscaglia, in particular,...
