Buffalo Rumblings
The Bills’ quest to reach Super Bowl LX begins in earnest.
Josh Allen will probably play pretty well at Buffalo Bills 2025 training camp. Now that the hot takes are out of the way, get prepared for a metric ton of information to descend upon you as the Buffalo Bills open training camp in the lead up to the 2025 NFL regular season.
Daily camp observation articles rival mock drafts as the most-clicked pieces of content produced by NFL media in large part because we as fans very much want to drink from a fire hose after months of slow drips of our football fix. But knowing that our attention is not all-encompassing, what items are the most important to pay attention to during camp? Which ones actually move the needle for the team’s direction and which ones are just fun camp stories (turkey burgers) or anecdotes?
Here are a few of the items I am personally keeping my eye on as the Bills go through summer training camp...
Mitchell Trubisky and Mike White are the candidates to be QB2 behind reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen in 2025. Their competition isn’t weighted equally though; the Bills can save $2.5 million on the 2025 cap by releasing Trubisky while incurring $750,000 in dead cap. Mike White is the cheaper option, which means Trubisky may have to outplay him by a good margin to be able to maintain another season as the Bills backup quarterback.
The Bills have welcomed new additions in waves on the defensive line — and that trend could continue all the way through Week 7 of the regular season. They already got one addition when rookie third-round pick Landon Jackson was removed from the Physically Unable to Perform list after a brief stint.
Fellow rookie Deone Walker is a defensive tackle the Bills could ease into camp as he recovers from a back injury. Joey Bosa, a free-agent signing, appears to be a full participant from the outset of camp. And then you have defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi and hybrid edge defender Michael Hoecht, both of whom are going to miss the first six games of the regular season with suspensions.
So the Bills get multiple shift changes on the defensive line by players coming back from injury, leaving on suspension, and then coming back again. There’s a chance that we see the team’s preferred depth chart on the defensive line late in camp, and then not again until after Week 7 of the regular season. Seeing what that looks like in the distant future compared to what it looks like in the not-so-distant future can help us take stock into what may have changed in the interim.
Does the return of Larry Ogunjobi post-Week 6 take a chunk out of the snaps for T.J. Sanders? The Bills aren’t likely to keep 11 defensive linemen at full capacity; who’s in danger of getting released...
