There is a 67 percent chance that the quarterback the Buffalo Bills choose to start on opening day will be the seventeenth man to start under center for the club since Jim Kelly announced his retirement immediately following the 1996 NFL season (or the eighteenth, if you actually count Matt Cassel as the Bills’ starter for the opener against the Indianapolis Colts in 2015).
The team’s newest veteran acquisition was originally thought to be a shoo-in for the starting quarterback gig. However, a strong challenge from a 2017 holdover is giving life to the competition.