The Buffalo Bills and general manager Brandon Beane have built an enviable stable of depth along their offensive line. The Bills have a strong group of five starters who return from last season, and they even have nearly all of their reserves returning, as well.
The easy way out in making the 53-man roster, then, would be to hit copy-paste from last season and make a squad for 2025. However, thanks to additions elsewhere, the Bills may have some decisions among the reserve ranks up front.
In today’s
edition of “90 players in 90 days,” we discuss a second-year offensive lineman looking to retain his position on the 53-man roster.
Name: Sedrick Van Pran-Granger
Number: 62
Position: C/G
Height/Weight: 6’4”, 310 pounds
Age: 23 (24 on 10/23/2025)
Experience/Draft: 2; selected by the Bills in the fifth round (No. 141 overall) of the 2024 NFL Draft
College: Georgia
Acquired: Fifth-round draft choice
Financial situation (per Spotrac): Van Pran-Granger enters the second year of his four-year rookie contract, which is worth $4,375,242 overall. For the 2025 season, Van Pran-Granger’s cap hit is $1,048,813 if he makes the 53-man roster. If he’s released, Buffalo will carry a dead-cap charge of $266,439 for the year.
2024 Recap: Van Pran-Granger was a healthy scratch for Buffalo’s Week 1 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, but he appeared in Buffalo’s 16 other regular-season games. He played sparingly, mostly finding time on special teams. He played on offense in blowouts, totaling 53 offensive snaps through his first 15 career games. In the Bills’ regular-season finale, he started at center and played every snap on offense.
He was active for Buffalo’s blowout victory over the Denver Broncos in the Super Wild Card Round of the playoffs, appearing on five offensive snaps and five special teams snaps. He was a healthy scratch in Buffalo’s subsequent two playoff matchups.
Positional outlook: Van Pran-Granger is one of three true centers on the roster, and that’s not counting the man the Bills start at center, Connor McGovern. Jacob Bayer and Kendrick Green are the other centers on the roster. The interior offensive linemen include Alec Anderson, who’s listed as a tackle, David Edwards, O’Cyrus Torrence, Rush Reimer, and Mike Edwards.
2025 Offseason: Van Pran-Granger is on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list thanks to a calf injury to begin training camp.
2025 Season outlook: If he’s healthy, Van Pran-Granger has a leg up on the competition as it relates to becoming the backup center. The Bills invested in him via a draft choice last season, and he saw action in games when the team could give him reps to hasten his development.
However, Kendrick Green is a solid veteran who has multiple starts (19) under his belt, and he’s still young at just 26 years old. If SVPG misses a lot of time and Green does well in his opportunity, there’s a chance that he could overtake the second-year man on the depth chart.
Buffalo will roll with either nine or 10 offensive linemen on the final roster. The locks are the five starters from last season — Dion Dawkins, David Edwards, Connor McGovern, O’Cyrus Torrence, and Spencer Brown, who’s dealing with an injury himself — along with Alec Anderson and Tylan Grable. That’s seven right there. The Bills also have Ryan Van Demark and rookie Chase Lundt as likely top-flight candidates. Add in Van Pran-Granger or Green, and we have a solid idea of who Buffalo’s top 10 offensive linemen are.
What changes would the Bills make to this group? Could they decide, for example, to deal Edwards, thereby saving roughly $3 million in cap space? That would mean that Anderson likely slots in as the left guard. That might clear a roster spot for someone, but does it make the team better? Would the Bills keep both SVPG and Green, or would they keep a player at another position in this hypothetical?
Truthfully, I think Van Pran-Granger is safe, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if there are some roster shenanigans that go on if his calf injury lingers throughout the summer. If this is a short-term, precautionary thing, then I expect him to make the roster.
If he might not be ready for opening day, I could see the Bills placing him on Injured Reserve and stashing him for next season. In any case, I expect that the former Georgia Bulldog will be with Buffalo this season and beyond.
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