Bills can capitalize on AFC East rival’s mistake to land major upgrade at premium position
Brandon Beane should be picking up the phone today.
The Buffalo Bills have more than one pressing need this offseason. While the talk of the town is the need to bring in some help for quarterback Josh Allen, the team also needs to beef up the trenches.
A golden opportunity presented itself to Buffalo after the Miami Dolphins decided to move on from pass rusher Bradley Chubb. General manager Brandon Beane should absolutely be picking up the phone and see what it takes to bring in Chubb on a one-year deal.
In his two full seasons with the Dolphins, he had 20 sacks, eight forced fumbles, and 117 tackles. Chubb came to Miami as part of a blockbuster trade deadline deal with the Denver Broncos.
Miami and Chubb agreed to a contract adjustment to keep him in-house for the 2025 season, and he was on the books for a salary cap charge exceeding $31 million this season and was owed over $20 million in compensation. That sequence of deals was a mistake; it was an easy move for the Dolphins to move on from him, and now the Bills can take advantage of that circumstance.
Chubb is a shell of the player he was, but still has plenty of gas in the tank
Chubb is a two-time Pro Bowler, and he just had 70 pressures and 11 sacks in 2023. He was exceptional, but then missed the 2024 season after tearing his ACL at the end of the 2023 season. In 2025, he didn’t quite look like the player he once was, but still managed to get 8.5 sacks.
For those saying Chubb is washed and no good, his 2025 season would have led the Bills in sacks, for what it’s worth. He still has plenty of gas left in the tank, and a one-year deal likely wouldn’t hurt Buffalo too much from a cap perspective, seeing as though Chubb will likely sign a one-year deal elsewhere anyway.
It’s a prove-it situation for Chubb after many have started to write him off.
That’s exactly the type of swing Buffalo should be taking right now. The Bills don’t need Chubb to be the 2023 version of himself; they just need him to get after the quarterback in January.
A one-year, prove-it deal gives Buffalo a motivated veteran with something to prove and gives Chubb a chance to reset his market on a true championship contender.
If it works, the Bills finally could be getting the pass-rush boost they’ve been missing. If it doesn’t, they aren’t tied to a long-term mistake.
For a team that couldn’t sack Bo Nix even once when it mattered most, this feels like a risk worth taking.
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