The Buffalo Bills decided to go with what they have at QB for the 2010 season as they passed up picking Tim Tebow and Jimmy Clausen (twice).  Now they will head into the 2010 NFL season with the same riff raff at QB that they used in 2009 unless 7th round pick Levi Brown steps up.  26-year old Trent Edwards likely heads into training camp as the starting QB but his job is written in pencil.  Edwards played in 8 games for the Bills last season and he completed 110 of 183 passes (60.1%) for 1,169 yards with 6 TD passes and 7 INTs (73.8 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 14 times for 106 yards (7.6 ypc) without scoring a TD.  Edwards is starting to remind me more of Rob Johnson every day and that is a bad thing for the Bills.  He has played in 32 games in his career with the Bills now and he has completed 506 of 826 passes (61.3%) for 5,498 yards with 24 TD passes and 25 INTs (77.9 QB Rating).  Edwards has also carried the ball 64 times for 272 yards (4.3 ypc) with 3 TD carries in his career so far.  Edwards has the potential to be a decent QB if he can stay in one piece for a whole year which is doubtful as he is pretty brittle.  The Bills have a 14-16 record (46.7%) in games started by Edwards in his career with them.

24-year old Brian Brohm will be #2 on the depth chart coming into training camp for some reason.  The Bills’ brass has him competing for the starting job in training camp which makes me think that he must be a very impressive player in practice.  He has played in 2 games in his NFL career (both last season) in which he completed 17 of 29 passes (58.6%) for 146 yards with 0 TD passes and 2 INTs (43.2 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 3 times for -3 yards (-1.0 ypc).  The fact that Brohm is competing for the starting job just shows you how much in shambles the Bills are at QB.  The Bills are 0-1 when Brohm starts at QB for them.

27-year old Ryan Fitzpatrick played the most of the Bills’ QBs last season but he opens training camp as the #3 guy.  Fitzpatrick played in 10 games for the Bills last season in which he completed 127 of 227 passes (55.9%) for 1,422 yards with 9 TD passes and 10 INTs (69.7 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 31 times for 141 yards (4.5 ypc) with 1 TD run last season.  Fitzpatrick has great mobility as he is a great runner but he has a very weak throwing arm which often hampers both him and the Bills’ offense.  Fitzpatrick has played in 28 games in his NFL career in which he has completed 424 of 734 passes (57.8%) for 4,104 yards with 21 TD passes and 27 INTs (67.7 QB Rating).  He also has carried the ball 108 times for 509 yards (4.7 ypc) with 5 TD runs in his career.  #3 on the depth chart is where Fitzpatrick doesn’t hurt the Bills.  Ryan Fitzpatrick has a career record of 8-14-1 (36.4%) as a starting QB in the NFL.

Rookie 7th round pick Levi Brown out of Troy will have a hard time making the Bills and that says a lot about his talent.

PROJECTED GRADE FOR THE BILLS’ QBs in 2010:  D-

The Bills have signed 24-year old RB/KR Chad Simpson.  Simpson played in 14 games for the Colts last season in which he carried the ball 15 times for 102 yards (6.8 ypc) with 2 TD runs and he also caught 3 passes for 1 yard (0.3 avg).  Simpson also returned 38 kickoffs for 898 yards (23.6 avg) with 1 TD return last season.  Simpson has now played in 25 games in his 2 years in the NFL appearing in 25 games in which he carried the ball 30 times for 147 yards (4.9 ypc) and he has caught 6 passes for 31 yards (5.2 avg).  Simpson has also returned 53 kickoffs for 1,242 yards (23.4 avg) with 1 TD return in his career thus far.  I think the signing of Simpson will remove the temptation of the Bills to use C.J. Spiller as a kickoff returner.