Tyler Bass has been a solid addition for the Buffalo Bills
Right before the 2019 NFL season, the Buffalo Bills traded an offensive lineman they were going to cut to the Cleveland Browns. Both teams got solid players out of the deal, but for a while it looked like the Bills may have been fleeced.
The trade results for the Wyatt Teller and Tyler Bass swap
The Browns immediately received Wyatt Teller, but the rest of the players involved in the trade didn’t come until later.
- Browns received Wyatt Teller and a 2021 seventh-round selection
- Bills received 2020 fifth-round and sixth-round picks
Who did the Bills pick with the selections from the Wyatt Teller trade?
The Bills used one of the picks from the Wyatt Teller trade (155 overall) in the package to acquire Stefon Diggs. The Vikings didn’t make the pick, either, using it as part of a different trade.
With pick 188, the Buffalo Bills selected kicker Tyler Bass.
How has Tyler Bass performed with the Bills?
Bass has spent his entire five-year career with the Bills, signing a contract extension a couple years ago. In his five seasons, he is a career 84.5% field goal kicker and now holds the record for longest field goal in Bills history. He is 96.4% in extra points.
The kicker is fourth all-time in points scored for the Bills and will pass Scott Norwood for third in September. Among Bills players with more than one game played, he is tops in team history with 7.9 points per game.
Bass was 13-for-13 on kicks in the most recent playoff run after a rough go in the 2023 playoffs.
He’s also managed the kickoffs during a tumultuous time for those plays. It’s tricky to even list stats there as the Bills chose to boom kickoffs for touchbacks under new rules in 2024, but were very happy to kick it short of the end zone in the previous three seasons.
How did Stefon Diggs perform with the Bills?
Diggs really elevated the Bills from a playoff team to a perennial contender in the AFC, and helped take a team without much playoff experience to the next level. His intensity and experience was desperately needed, not to mention his actual stats.
On the field, he caught 445 passes for 5372 yards and 37 touchdowns averaging 81.4 yards per game and topping 1180 yards in each of his four seasons. He played in nine Bills playoff games, too, with 47 receptions for 600 yards and two touchdowns.
The accolades rolled in, too. He was named to the Pro Bowl in every season with the Bills, first-team All-Pro in 2020 and second-team All-Pro in 2022.
The Bills sent Diggs to the Houston Texans during the 2024 offseason for a trade package that included a second-round pick, so the receiver held his value despite being four years older with a hefty contract.
How did Wyatt Teller perform for the Browns since the trade?
That player shipped to Cleveland was Wyatt Teller. Teller was originally acquired by the Bills in the 2018 NFL Draft in a pick from the Jacksonville Jaguars for Marcell Dareus. He was on the roster bubble, so the Bills got some value for him in 2019.
Teller moved into the starting lineup for the Browns halfway through his first season. In 2020, he was dominant and even named to the NFL’s All-Pro team. In 2021, he signed a four-year, $56.8 million contract extension and earned his first Pro Bowl nod. He made the NFL’s Top 100 Players of 2022 list then earned another Pro Bowl spot in 2022 and 2023.
What did the Browns do with the pick from the Tyler Bass trade?
Cleveland traded the pick they received alongside Wyatt Teller to the Detroit Lions in a package of picks.
Who won the Wyatt Teller trade between the Bills and Browns?
Teller has unquestionably been a top-tier player for the Browns and the Bills could have used some All-Pro linemen back in the early 2000s. They seem to have figured it out over the last few years, though.
Diggs and Bass performed very well for the Bills, which takes some sting out of the trade.
Because he would have been cut if he wasn’t traded, I think everyone won on this trade. The Bills got a lot of value for a player who was’t going to make the roster. The Browns got a really good piece of their offensive line.