Buffalo Rumblings
Tyler Bass has been a solid addition for the Buffalo Bills
Right before the 2019 NFL season, the Buffalo Bills traded an offensive lineman they were going to cut to the Cleveland Browns. Both teams got solid players out of the deal, but for a while it looked like the Bills may have been fleeced.
The Browns immediately received Wyatt Teller, but the rest of the players involved in the trade didn’t come until later.
The Bills used one of the picks from the Wyatt Teller trade (155 overall) in the package to acquire Stefon Diggs. The Vikings didn’t make the pick, either, using it as part of a different trade.
With pick 188, the Buffalo Bills selected kicker Tyler Bass.
Bass has spent his entire five-year career with the Bills, signing a contract extension a couple years ago. In his five seasons, he is a career 84.5% field goal kicker and now holds the record for longest field goal in Bills history. He is 96.4% in extra points.
The kicker is fourth all-time in points scored for the Bills and will pass Scott Norwood for third in September. Among Bills players with more than one game played, he is tops in team history with 7.9 points per game.
Bass was 13-for-13 on kicks in the most recent playoff run after a rough go in the 2023 playoffs.
He’s also managed the kickoffs during a tumultuous time for those plays. It’s tricky to even list stats there as the Bills chose to boom kickoffs for touchbacks under new rules in 2024, but were very happy to kick it short of the end zone in the previous three seasons.
Diggs really elevated the Bills from a playoff team to a perennial contender in the AFC, and helped take a team without much playoff experience to the next level. His intensity and experience was desperately needed, not to mention his actual stats.
On the field, he caught 445 passes for 5372 yards and 37 touchdowns averaging 81.4 yards per game and topping 1180 yards in each of his four seasons. He played in nine Bills playoff games, too, with 47 receptions for 600 yards and two touchdowns.
The accolades rolled in, too. He was named to the Pro Bowl in every season with the Bills, first-team All-Pro in 2020 and second-team All-Pro in 2022.
The Bills sent Diggs to the Houston Texans during the 2024 offseason for a trade package that included a second-round pick, so the receiver held his value despite being four years older with a hefty contract.
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