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‘Those dollar figures mean Humber will, once again, play for the veteran minimum, which means he will only count $690,000 against the team’s 2018 salary cap. The nine-year veteran had played for the one-year veteran minimum for each of the last two years, as well. Humber won the starting weakside linebacker position last year in training camp after primarily being only a special teams player in 2016. But he lost that starting role to rookie Matt Milano about midway through the season. After that, he only played about one-third of the snaps on defense and took on a bigger special teams role once again.’

‘Give the Jets credit – the Bills’ division rival hasn’t had a “franchise” quarterback since Joe Namath in the 1960’s, with all due respect to the likes of Chad Pennington, Ken O’Brien and Richard Todd. The move makes perfect sense for them. Even though the Jets have, over the years, confounded, angered and / or puzzled their fans when it comes to first round draft picks, there’s no way the Jets made this move to get Saquon Barkley, Bradley Chubb or anyone else who won’t be throwing the football for a living.’

‘I think fans are decidedly in favor of the Bills trading with the Giants for the second pick, and it doesn’t take long to find one who’ll say “no matter what it costs”.’

‘The team has made two signings official to add to that depth with center Russell Bodine and tackle Marshall Newhouse. Both reportedly were visiting with the Bills on Monday.’

‘The 25-year old will most likely compete with Groy for the center spot. But the signing will also allow Groy to be able to play guard if there are any injuries at the position. It might not even be out of the question that Groy could be looked at as a better option than either Vlad Ducasse or John Miller at right guard in new offensive coordinator Brian Daboll’s system, meaning Bodine then starts at center.’

‘The Buffalo Bills still have some holes to fill on their roster as the second tier free agents find a home. The Bills reportedly are hosting three players on visits on Monday. Former Redskins linebacker Will Compton, former Raider right tackle Marshall Newhouse, and former Bengals center Russell Bodine.’

‘If they spend all of their picks, and come away with no QB… they’ll still have “holes to fill” next year. You’ll always have holes to fill.’

‘Now, Beane has to determine if the price to jump over his AFC East rival will be worth it. The only two options remaining now are to get to the top overall pick, owned by the Cleveland Browns, or the second overall selection, where the New York Giants sit.’

‘While he wouldn’t give an exact figure on the team’s cap situation, Beane said “we’ve got to save money for the draft picks, and I like to be conservative with the injury replacement cost, you know when you get guys injured starting in camp and through the year, you’ve got to have money to replace those guys. So I like to hold a little nest egg there. In my mind of free agency money, we’ve got a little bit left, but it’s not much.”’

‘Cadet and Ivory were teammates in 2012 with the New Orleans Saints. What they did then is something that the Bills would be looking for now. Cadet provided some flare in the pass game, and Ivory focused on short yardage and between the tackles running.’

‘McCarron has also heard the term “bridge quarterback” being used for this situation in Buffalo, but he isn’t concerned with the labels, “A lot of people have labels. You can either let it affect you and how you go about your work and let that define you or you change everyone’s thought process on you.”‘

‘McCarron has three career regular season starts, and has played in eleven games since entering the league as a fifth round pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2014. In those games he completed 64.7% of his passes for 920 yards, 6 touchdowns and two interceptions.’

‘Murphy was also suspended by the NFL before last season. Four games for violating the league’s performance enhancing drugs policy. Despite being injured, his suspension was technically served last season.’

‘The one signing on there we didn’t know about is the signing of linebacker Julian Stanford to a 2-year deal. Stanford is a career special teamer, who played just 8 defensive snaps for the New York Jets last season.’

‘NFL Insider Ian Rapoport reported the deal is worth $6 million with $5 million of that guaranteed.’