For the last few years, the Buffalo Bills have had one of the best safety tandems in the league. The top backup for much of that time has been Dean Marlowe, a veteran player who came to Buffalo by way of the Carolina Panthers along with head coach Sean McDermott.
Now that Marlowe has moved on, the Bills have a big role to fill behind starters Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde. While it shouldn’t be a big role in terms of playing time, it’s big in the sense that someone has a chance to earn some time on the field that otherwise would have gone to Marlowe.