In the Buffalo Bills 2024 NFL schedule: opposing QBs

Almost immediately after the Buffalo Bills’ 2024 schedule was released, Bills Mafia began dissecting it and giving their predictions about the upcoming season. Over the next few weeks in this Buffalo Rumblings space, we will break down some numbers based on the position groups Buffalo will face.

There’s no better position to start than the most important position on the football field: quarterbacks.

Three

That’s how many Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks the Bills will face this season. The first lies in their own division – and that would be Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets. Buffalo, given his good health, will face Rodgers at least twice in 2024.

A now very familiar face is of course the reigning champion quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs – none other than Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bills host the Chiefs in the regular season, marking Mahomes’ second trip to Orchard Park, New York. Fun fact, the Bills are 3-1 against Mahomes in the regular season. Yes, we know Buffalo has yet to beat him in the playoffs when it matters most.

The last QB the team will face that holds a Lombardi is Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams. Stafford last faced the Bills on opening night of the 2022 NFL season. Stafford is 0-3 in his career against the team.

Five

The number of potential quarterbacks Buffalo will play against for the first time. Three of those quarterbacks reside in the AFC South. There’s CJ Stroud with the Houston Texans, Will Levis for the Tennessee Titans and Anthony Richardson of the Indianapolis Colts.

Buffalo saw Richardson in the preseason last year, but this will be the first time they face him in the regular season. When the team faces the San Francisco 49ers Sunday Night Football this will be their first time playing Brock Purdy. Finally, we assume that when Buffalo faces the New England Patriots at the end of the season, it will be first-round pick Drake Maye starting at quarterback.

Two

Two highlight the quarterbacks who beat Sean McDermott and the Buffalo Bills the last time they faced each other in the regular season. The one the Bills will see in the season opener – Kyler Murray with the Arizona Cardinals. Most of the Bills mob remembers “Hail Murray” where he broke Buffalo’s hearts by completing a long touchdown pass on the final play of the game after the Bills took the lead late in the fourth quarter.

Then there’s Trevor Lawrence who beat the Bills the last two times in the regular season. Most recently, it was last year in London, and before that, two seasons ago, when Urban Myer was still the head coach of the football team.