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This is a list of the best Buffalo Bills of all time. As one of the original AFL teams in the early '60s, the first few decades of Bills football was defined by solid players, yet they lacked the playoff results to be seriously considered one of the NFL's premier teams. Players like Jack Kemp, Cookie Gilchrist, and O.J. Simpson (we're talking about on the field accomplishments here) spearheaded those high flying Bills of the franchise's early years. With a combination of hitting the jackpot on high draft picks, shrewd trades and a seasoned head coach in Marv Levy, many of the greatest Bills in team history came from the team's most successful seasons during the 1990s.&nbsp;Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith and Andre Reed are considered by many to be the best Bills ever. These players were at the core of the Bills teams that went to the Super Bowl a league record four straight years from 1990-1993. Ultimately, these players never were able to capture that elusive Super Bowl title, The run of success that these BIlls players were a part of are looked back fondly by Bills fans. These Bills greats are still revered and popular in western New York. Despite the lack of a championship, it doesn't take away that they are considered some of the greatest Buffalo Bills in history.&nbsp;This list of the best Buffalo Bills of all time accounts for all players in its AFL and NFL history. If you notice that a player isn't on this list and should be, feel free to add him. Vote and rerank this list so it accurately reflect who should be considered the greatest Bills players in team history &nbsp;

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Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills linebackers with photos and seasons as starters.&nbsp;It includes every starting linebacker from throughout <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buffalo-bills-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills history</a>, including current linebackers and past ones. An important part of the Buffalo defense, the LB position includes middle or inside linebackers and outside (strong side or weakside) linebackers. Featuring some of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-25-greatest-linebackers-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest NFL linebackers</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Bills&nbsp;LBs include Sam Rogers, Keith Ellison, Shane Conlan, and John Holecek.In the 2017-18 NFL season, the current Buffalo Bills starting LBs and backup LBs are Lorenzo Alexander, Deon Lacey, Matt Milano, and Tanner Vallejo.&nbsp; Who are the best linebackers in Buffalo Bills history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Buffalo Bills&nbsp;starting linebacker.

Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills wide receivers with photos and seasons as starters.&nbsp;It includes every starting wide receiver from throughout <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buffalo-bills-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills history</a>, including current wide receivers and past ones. Featuring 2018-2019 Buffalo Bills and some of the greatest NFL&nbsp;wide receivers of all time,&nbsp;the best Bills&nbsp;WRs include Andre Reed, Lee Evans, Eric Moulds, and Bob Chandler, among other greats.

Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-current-nfl-wide-receiver/ranker-sports?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best wide receivers</a> in Buffalo Bills history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Buffalo Bills&nbsp;starting wide receiver.

Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills running backs with photos and seasons as starters.&nbsp;It includes every starting running back from throughout <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/every-buffalo-bills-tight-end-ranked/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills history</a>, including current running backs and past ones. Featuring 2018-2019 Buffalo Bills and some of the greatest NFL&nbsp;running backs&nbsp;of all time, the best Bills RBs include Thurman Thomas, O. J. Simpson, and Cookie Gilchrist.

Who are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-current-nfl-running-back/ranker-sports?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best running backs</a> in Buffalo Bills history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Buffalo Bills&nbsp;starting running back.

The best Buffalo Bills kickers ever have all had a part in some of the biggest moments in franchise history. NFL games can be won and lost by one or two points, making every made or missed kick of the greatest importance and every starting kicker a potential hero.

While recent stars like Rian Lindell and Dan Carpenter have made their mark in the Bills&#39; past, early standouts like Steve Christie and John Leypoldt helped craft their own legacies in the old days of&nbsp;the franchise.

So which of these kickers from <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buffalo-bills-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills history</a> deserves to rank near the top of the list? Who are the best Bills kickers of all-time? Vote below, and check back to see what other football fans thought.

Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills quarterbacks with photos! It includes every starting quarterback from throughout Buffalo Bills history, including current quarterbacks and past ones. This roster contains many American football greats, players in the game with the highest ratings in the NFL. The QB is the leader of the offensive team, the one who often calls the plays. Although most teams use an offensive coordinator now, QBs still need to know the intricacies of the rules for trick plays and tactics. Vigorous training is a must—and don't forget that a quarterback is only as good as his receivers.Featuring 2018-2019 Buffalo Bills&nbsp;and some of the greatest NFL quarterbacks&nbsp;of all time, the best Bills QBs include Jim Kelly,&nbsp;Tyrod&nbsp;Taylor, Doug Flutie, and Joe Ferguson, among many other greats.Who are the best quarterbacks in Buffalo Bills history? Here is every athlete who's ever held the illustrious position of Buffalo Bills quarterback.

The Buffalo Bills have had some great tight ends throughout the franchise&rsquo;s history. This list of past Bills tight ends features former greats, current impact players, and even future stars.&nbsp;As the tight end position increasingly becomes more of a focal point in the offensive schemes of today, one can only imagine what this list could look like in years down the road. No matter what happens in the evolution of this position, these Buffalo tight ends have left a legacy for this that can&rsquo;t be taken away.&nbsp;

Great <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buffalo-bills-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills players</a> such as Pete Metzelaars, Charles Clay, and Scott Chandler have gone down as some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-25-greatest-tight-ends-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best tight ends</a> in franchise history.

So&nbsp;who is the greatest tight end in Buffalo Bills history? Which of these tight ends has left a lasting legacy in the city of Buffalo? Vote below for who you think is the best Buffalo Bills tight end of all time!

Rex Ryan

There have been many Buffalo Bills coaches since the team got its start, but who is truly the best Buffalo Bills coach of all time? Help us answer that question by upvoting your personal favorite Buffalo Bills coaches, and downvoting any that you believe brought the team down.The Bills have unfortunately never won a Super Bowl, but head coach Mark Levy brought them to the big game four years in a row from 1990-1993. The fact that the Bills went to the Super Bowl four years in a row and never won is still a sore subject for Buffalo natives, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCiQASnw6o" target="_blank">this guy especially</a>.&nbsp;Other great Bills coaches include Chuck Knox and Lou Saban, both of whom had decent playoff runs with Buffalo.&nbsp;Who is the greatest Buffalo Bills coach of all time? Will Rex Ryan turn the team around and make them a top contender in the AFC East? Let us know by upvoting for your favorite head coaches below that you believe really made an impact on the franchise.

Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills cornerbacks with photos and seasons as starters.&nbsp;It includes every starting cornerback from throughout <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buffalo-bills-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Buffalo Bills history</a>, including current cornerbacks and past ones. An important part of the Buffalo defensive backfield, the CB position requires fast players to cover receivers, defend against pass offenses, and make tackles. Featuring 2018-2019 Bills and&nbsp;some of the&nbsp;greatest NFL cornerbacks of all time,&nbsp;the best Bills&nbsp;CBs include Terrence McGee, Leodis McKelvin, Charles Romes, Robert James, and Nate Odomes.Who are the best cornerbacks in Buffalo Bills history? Here is every player who has ever held the position of Buffalo Bills&nbsp;starting cornerback.

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Antoine Winfield

Antoine Duane Winfield (born June 24, 1977) is a former American football cornerback who played 14 years in the National Football League (NFL).  He played college football for Ohio State University, earning consensus All-American honors and winning the Jim Thorpe Award. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played five seasons for the Bills and nine seasons for the Minnesota Vikings. He was a three-time Pro Bowl selection as a member of the Vikings.

Nate Odomes

Nathaniel Bernard Odomes (born August 25, 1965) is a former professional American football cornerback who played for the Buffalo Bills (1987–1993), Seattle Seahawks (1994–1995), and the Atlanta Falcons (1996).  Before his NFL career, he played for University of Wisconsin–Madison and was selected by the Bills in the second round of the 1987 NFL Draft.
Odomes was one of the top defensive backs in the NFL during the early 1990s, assisting the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances, and making the Pro Bowl twice (1992 and 1993).  One of his more memorable plays was in a 1992 playoff game known as The Comeback, where he intercepted a pass from future Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon to set up Buffalo's game-winning field goal.  In the following season, Odomes led the NFL with 9 interceptions, and made a key interception in the second quarter of Super Bowl XXVIII to help his team build a 13–6 halftime lead.  However, his team still lost the game 30–13.
After the 1993 season, Odomes signed with Seattle and spent two injury-plagued years with the Seahawks. He never suited up for Seattle. Before concluding his NFL career, he played one final season with the Atlanta Falcons in 1996. In his eight NFL seasons, Odomes intercepted 26 passes, which he returned for 224 yards and a touchdown.  He also recorded 3 sacks and recovered 8 fumbles, returning them for 86 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Stephon Gilmore

Stephon Stiles Gilmore (born September 19, 1990) is an American football cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL).

Terrence McGee

Terrence Dewayne McGee (born October 14, 1980) is a former American football cornerback and kick returner in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by Buffalo Bills in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football for Northwestern State. During his career, McGee was considered a versatile threat for his kick return skills as well as his defensive play.

Nate Clements

Nathan D. Clements (born December 12, 1979) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL).  He played college football for Ohio State.  He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills 21st overall in the 2001 NFL Draft, and also played for the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals.

Leodis McKelvin

Leodis Anquan McKelvin (born September 1, 1985) is a former American football cornerback and return specialist. He played college football for Troy University and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills 11th overall in the 2008 NFL draft.

Butch Byrd

George Edward "Butch" Byrd (born September 20, 1941) is a former professional American football defensive back.  He started his career playing college football at Boston University. He joined the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and immediately made an impact in the defensive backfield, with seven interceptions. Byrd was also a punt returner for his entire career.
Byrd holds the Bills' career records for interceptions (40), interception return yards (666) and interceptions returned for touchdowns (5). He was a five-time American Football League All-Star, and was selected for the second team, All-Time All-AFL. Byrd is a 1980 inductee of the Boston University Hall of Fame, and in 2008 was selected to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

Ronald Darby

Aaron Williams

Aaron Williams (born April 23, 1990) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas.

Robert James

Robert James (born July 7, 1947) is a former American football defensive back who played six seasons from 1969 to 1974 for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League (NFL). James was a three-time Pro Bowler, in 1972, 1973 and 1974. He ran track for Fisk College in Tennessee.

Booker Edgerson

Booker Tyrone Edgerson (born July 5, 1939) is a former American football player.  This graduate of Western Illinois University was a cornerstone of the American Football League Buffalo Bills' defense in the mid-1960s, at left cornerback.
A four-year letterman (football, baseball, wrestling, track & field); in 1959 and 1960, he led the WIU football team to the only consecutive undefeated seasons in school history, and is in the WIU Hall of Fame.
Booker was born in Baxter County, Arkansas.  He signed as a free agent with the Bills in 1962 and stepped into a starting role at left cornerback.  He made a career-high six interceptions (including two in his first game, against Hall of Famer George Blanda), and was named to the AFL All-Rookie team.
Edgerson's college background as a sprinter and long jumper served him well in the demanding role of man-to-man pass coverage. The AFL featured many dangerous receivers at that time including San Diego's Lance Alworth. But Edgerson became one of the key components of the league's best defense, and he was the only man ever to catch Alworth from behind in a game.
Edgerson appeared in playoffs four consecutive years, and in three straight AFL Championship games. The Bills beat the San Diego Chargers in 1964 and again in 1965, when Edgerson was selected as an American Football League All-Star.
Edgerson had 23 interceptions in his eight-year career in Buffalo, and scored on two, including one against Joe Namath. He also forced and returned a fumble for the deciding score in a 1969 game against the Cincinnati Bengals, played in blizzard conditions.
Edgerson retired to Buffalo, where he has been involved in numerous charitable endeavors through the Bills Alumni, and was the 1993 recipient of the Ralph C. Wilson Award.  He is a member of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
Edgerson was selected to be the 2010 Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame inductee where his name was revealed during a halftime ceremony on October 3 during the Bills game against AFC rival New York Jets.
Edgerson wrote the foreword to The Cookie That Did Not Crumble, the autobiography of his former teammate, Cookie Gilchrist.

Jabari Greer

Jabari Amin Greer (born February 11, 1982) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He played college football at Tennessee and was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2004. Greer also played for the New Orleans Saints.

Thomas Smith

Thomas Lee Smith (born December 5, 1970 in Gatesville, North Carolina) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who played for the Buffalo Bills, the Chicago Bears, and the Indianapolis Colts.  He played college football at the University of North Carolina.
After being drafted 28th overall in the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft, Smith played primarily on special teams during the 1993 season.  He played in Super Bowl XXVIII for the Bills against the Dallas Cowboys.  He became a starting cornerback for Buffalo in 1994, a position he would hold through the 1999 season.  During this time, Smith became known as one of the top coverage cornerbacks in the NFL, but did not receive the Pro Bowl and/or All-Pro recognition his play deserved because he had terrible hands and dropped almost every potential interception he was in position to snare (at the time, advanced coverage statistics which would have benefited superb lockdown players like Smith did not exist, and his lack of interceptions was wrongly cited when he was seen as a good rather than great player).  He left Buffalo following 1999 to sign with the Chicago Bears, where he played in 2000.  He finished his playing career with the Indianapolis Colts in 2001.

Drayton Florence

Drayton Florence, Jr. (born December 19, 1980) is a former American football cornerback who played eleven seasons in the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee-Chattanooga and Tuskegee.
Florence was also a member of the: Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, and Denver Broncos.

Mario Clark

Mario Sean Clark (born March 29, 1954) was an American football cornerback who played for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers of the NFL.  He played college football at the University of Oregon.Playing for the Bills, Clark was a ballhawk who had 25 NFL interceptions by the age of 27. But Mario Clark managed only one more interception the rest of his career, finishing his NFL career with 26 interceptions, but he also finished it with a Super Bowl championship in 1984 as a member of the 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.

Charles Romes

Charles Michael Romes (born December 16, 1954 in Verdun, France) was an American football cornerback in the NFL, primarily for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at North Carolina Central University. Romes's 137 total starts with Buffalo are 8th-most in team history. He is distinguished as being the first French man to play in the National Football League.

Derrick Burroughs

Derrick D'wayne Burroughs (born May 18, 1962) is an American football coach and former cornerback who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills. He is currently the head football coach at Lane College.

Jeff Burris

Jeffrey Lamar Burris (born June 6, 1972) is an American football coach and former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons. He played college football for the University of Notre Dame, and was an All-American. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1994 NFL Draft, and he played professionally for the Bills, Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Burris was the assistant defensive backs coach/defensive quality control coach for the Miami Dolphins. On October 8, 2015 Jeff Burris was promoted to assistant defensive backs coach for the Dolphins. On June 3, 2016, he was hired as a defensive analyst for his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame.

Kirby Jackson

Kirby Jackson (born February 2, 1965 in Sturgis, Mississippi) is a former professional American football defensive back who played for the Los Angeles Rams (1987) and the Buffalo Bills (1988–1992). He later was acquired by the Seattle Seahawks, but did not see playing time as he was injured before the season.  Before his NFL career, he played for Mississippi State University and was selected by the New York Jets in the fifth round of the 1987 NFL Draft.

E.J. Gaines

Ken Irvin

Kenneth Pernell Irvin (born July 11, 1972 in Rome, Georgia) is a former American football defensive back who played for eleven seasons in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, New Orleans Saints, and the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at the University of Memphis, which is where he became affiliated with Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Tony Greene

Anthony Greene (born August 29, 1949 in Gaithersburg, Maryland) is an American football former safety in the NFL who played for the Buffalo Bills.  He played college football at the University of Maryland.
Greene holds the record for the longest interception return in Bills history, when he scored on a 101-yard interception against the Kansas City Chiefs in 1976.

Billy Atkins

Mickey Washington

Mickey Lin Washington (born July 8, 1968) is a former professional American football player who played cornerback in the National Football League for eight seasons for the New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New Orleans Saints. 
After leaving the NFL, Washington obtained a law degree from Texas Southern University and is currently an attorney in private practice in Houston, Texas.

Big fan of Buffalo football? Then check out this list of Buffalo Bills cornerbacks with photos and seasons as starters.&nbsp;It includes every starting ...