Bills Release Quinton Spain

October 21st, 2020 at 12:22pm CST by Zachary Links

The Bills have released guard Quinton Spain, per a club announcement. Effectively a full-time starter for four straight seasons, Spain now finds himself on the open market in the middle of the season.

Spain, 29, was slated to be a free agent in March before he re-upped with Buffalo on a three-year, $15MM deal. Although he wasn’t a world-beater like fellow free agents like Brandon Scherff and Joe Thuney, the Bills wanted to lock him up for the long haul.

Buffalo made its offensive line a priority in 2019, adding free agents Mitch Morse, Ty Nsekhe, and Spencer Long and second-round draft pick Cody Ford, in addition to Spain. A former undrafted free agent, Spain spent the first four years and 48 starts of his career with the Titans. In ’19, Spain started all 16 games for the first time in his NFL tenure, grading as the league’s No. 59 guard among 80 qualifiers per Pro Football Focus. Spain and the other reinforcements helped the Bills’ running game, as Buffalo improved from 30th in Football Outsiders‘ 2018 run-blocking metrics to 16th last season.

This year, Spain lost his starting gig to Cody Ford. Then, he suffered a foot injury, costing him the last two games. The Bills will forge ahead with Ford at LG and Brian Winters at RG with support from Ike Boettger and Ryan Bates.

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10 comments on “Bills Release Quinton Spain”

mstockw1 • 4 years ago

Rumored he failed to meet the requirements of his off-season conditioning program. Then he was being uncooperative with treatments for his injury by the Trainers.

mstockw1 • 4 years ago

Nevermimd, per Buffalo News “He was named the winner of the team’s Iron Bills Games in the offseason for his conditioning work during the virtual offseason.”

Must’ve been unhappy he wasn’t gonna get the start when Jon Feliciano gets the all clear. My guess he butt heads a little too hard and Buffalo couldn’t find a trade partner.

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