The Bills have moved on from Sedrick Van Pran-Granger, sending the center and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Colts in exchange for a 2027 sixth-round pick, the team announced Sunday.
The deal comes after Van Pran-Granger never managed to carve out the role Buffalo had hoped he would. Entering his third season, the Bills wanted him to make a push for the backup center job after spending two years as a healthy scratch, injured or buried on the reserve list. Instead, veteran Lloyd Cushenberry III took that spot on a low-cost, one-year offseason deal and kept it.
The clearest sign of where things stood came when starting center Connor McGovern went down with a multi-week injury. At that point, Cushenberry was the only center working with quarterback Josh Allen in practices and games, and Van Pran-Granger was effectively out of the picture.
Buffalo also had a numbers problem along the offensive line. The Bills were looking at 11 or 12 players they could realistically keep, including five young linemen they’ve already used Day 3 picks on.
Add Cushenberry and veteran interior offensive lineman Austin Corbett to the mix, and the squeeze got real fast. Under general manager Brandon Beane, the Bills have typically kept nine or 10 offensive linemen, which made a move inevitable.
Van Pran-Granger’s fit never quite changed, either. He is a center only, and while Buffalo tried him at guard a few times over his three summers with the team, that experiment never stuck. He kept drifting back to center, and in the end that limited his path to staying in Buffalo.
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