The Buffalo Bills brought over a quality center to help quarterback Josh Allen in 2019, figuring that a veteran with experience calling NFL blitz schemes could help the then-second-year quarterback to identify pressure. The team made that center the highest-paid at his position in the league, and while his deal has since been eclipsed, Buffalo still has one of the league’s richest interior offensive linemen.
A troubling injury history and a curious lineup decision from 2020 left some wondering if that center had played his last game for Buffalo when the Bills lost to his old team, the Kansas City Chiefs, in the AFC Championship Game last January.