Buffalo Rumblings
Is he a safety? Is he a slot corner? Is he a special-teams ace? Is he a goner?
The Buffalo Bills have a deep defensive secondary group that includes a stable of players who can fill multiple roles on the team. Some of those defensive backs are corners and special teams players, some of them can play slot corner and outside corner, some of them can play safety and corner, and some can do some mixture of all of the above.
Especially for players who don’t project as starters, it’s essential to know multiple positions and fill multiple roles. One of the more underrated pathways to a game-day roster is the ability to play multiple spots. If a player can do that, it makes them far more valuable to the team than they would be if they merely played one position.
In today’s edition of “90 players in 90 days,” we discuss a player who has filled multiple roles on defense for a number of years now.
Name: Cam Lewis
Number: 39
Position: DB
Height/Weight: 5’9”, 183 pounds
Age: 28 (29 on 4/13/2026)
Experience/Draft: 6; signed with Buffalo following the 2019 NFL Draft
College: Buffalo
Acquired: UDFA signing
Financial situation (per Spotrac): Lewis enters the final year of his two-year contract extension worth $3.1 million. For the 2025 season, he carries a cap hit of $1,968,500 if he makes the 53-man roster. If Buffalo releases him prior to Week 1, they’ll carry a dead-cap charge of $212,500. If Lewis is on the roster for Week 1, the entirety of his base salary, $1.262 million, becomes fully guaranteed since he is a vested veteran.
2024 Recap: Lewis once again served as a hybrid slot corner-slash-safety on defense, and he also maintained his role as one of the team’s most important special teams players. Due to a litany of injuries, both at slot corner and at safety, Lewis played more snaps on defense than he ever had before.
After Taron Johnson fractured his forearm in Buffalo’s first game of the season, Lewis started the next four games in his place. When starting safeties Taylor Rapp and Damar Hamlin both went down later in the season, Lewis started two more games — one against the Detroit Lions and then the following week against the New England Patriots — before moving back to a reserve role upon Rapp’s return.
Lewis finished fifth on the team in tackles with 68, adding four pass breakups, an interception, and two tackles for loss. He was one of 11 players on Buffalo’s defense to play over half of the team’s defensive snaps for the season. He was fourth on the team in total special teams snaps with 253. He had seven tackles on special teams, which was tied for second on the team. In the playoffs, Lewis had five tackles and a forced fumble in three games.
Positional outlook: Lewis is one of a whole host of players vying for roster space in the defensive backfield. He’s...
