The Buffalo Bills made a significant move this offseason when they signed veteran free agent pass rusher Bradley Chubb to a three-year, $43.5 million deal.
Although the Bills haven’t played a regular-season game this year, Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon re-evaluated every major free-agent signing this offseason and awarded Buffalo an “A+” for acquiring Chubb.
“This one remains somewhat under the radar,” Gagnon wrote on Friday. “Coming off a torn ACL that cost him all of 2024, Chubb had 8.5 sacks while getting reacclimated in 2025. The 30-year-old former top-five pick could easily return to a Pro Bowl level in a new, winning environment. He’s looked stellar thus far this offseason.”
Chubb Was a First-Round Pick in 2018
The Broncos drafted Chubb with their first-round pick of the 2018 NFL Draft. Chubb spent five seasons in Denver before being traded to the Miami Dolphins in the 2022 season. He played only 41 games for Miami and missed all of 2024. Chubb played in all 17 games for the Dolphins last season and recorded 8.5 sacks.
Miami released Chubb this March to clear cap space, mostly because the Dolphins are in rebuild mode. The Dolphins want fewer veteran players on their roster who can help them win, and Chubb is one of those types of players.
The Bills should be getting a high-upside player in Chubb. Chubb hasn’t played in many postseason games in his career, and now he will get a chance to be part of a possible Super Bowl team in his first season in Buffalo.
Chubb Has New Energy Playing for the Bills
Miami won seven games last season, and a lot of players would have their heads down after a season that failed to make the playoffs. But Chubb now feels reenergized, knowing he’ll be playing for a Bills squad that could be one of the best in the NFL this season.
“When you kind of go season in, season out, not having the results you want, like, you know, in the win column,” Chubb said in August, via WIVB’s Carl Jones. “It is reenergizing to get to a city and a team and organization who has expectations of not just the first round, not just the second round, being in the long haul and the playoff run playing far into January.”
The Bills have signed a few veteran pass rushers over the last few seasons like Von Miller and Joey Bosa. Miller came to Buffalo in 2022 and played okay in three seasons, recording 14 sacks in 36 games. The Bills signed Bosa last offseason, and he played in 15 games, recording five sacks.
Buffalo definitely needs more upside from Chubb this season than they had with Miller and Bosa over the last few years. If Chubb can play like he did last season, then there is a good chance that Buffalo could have one of the best defenses in the NFL.
The pass rush has often failed the Bills in the playoffs, but maybe Chubb will be the pass rusher Buffalo has been looking for over the last five seasons.
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