A common talking point among play-by-play crews during Buffalo Bills games in 2019 was how few players brought in prior to head coach Sean McDermott’s tenure beginning in 2017 remained with the team.
In three short seasons, the roster had been turned over so the only remaining vets playing in 2019 who had also been with the team during the Rex Ryan/Anthony Lynn season was limited to three players: Jerry Hughes, Lorenzo Alexander, and Shaq Lawson. Now with Alexander’s retirement and Lawson’s free-agency exit to Miami, literally only Jerry Hughes remains on the roster from before Sean McDermott was the head coach.