2017 ATS record: 9-6-1
Optimist view: After rookie head coach Sean McDermott's Bills halted the NFL's longest playoff drought at 17 years, he and GM Brandon Beane continued putting their stamp on the roster this offseason, adding likely Day 1 starters in vets Star Lotulelei and Trent Murphy and rookie Tremaine Edmunds. Lotulelei and Edmunds should help address the NFL's 26th-ranked run 'D,' while Murphy provides a pass-rush presence opposite Jerry Hughes on the league's second-worst pressure attack.
Fellow newcomers Vontae Davis and Phillip Gaines join Tre'Davious White and safeties Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer in a secondary that served as an opportunistic defense's engine.