Quessenberry’s New Team Includes Old Teammates

The Buffalo Payments have change into the popular vacation spot for former Tennessee Titans offensive linemen.

Thursday, deal with David Quessenberry turned the third in a matter of weeks to finish up with the Payments when he agreed to a one-year contract. The 31-year-old turned an unrestricted free agent this offseason when the Titans declined to supply him the restricted free agent tender, which might have allowed them to retain his rights.

Quessenberry follows left guard Rodger Saffold, who signed with Buffalo greater than a month in the past, and deal with Bobby Hart, who spent a part of final season with Tennessee and began one recreation (Los Angeles Rams). Hart, who completed final season with the Payments, agreed to a brand new cope with them earlier this month.

“We have had some good matchups in years previous between Tennessee and Buffalo and I’ve all the time revered the best way the blokes play,” Quessenberry informed the Buffalo media. “I wish to be part of that, wish to be part of that tradition. Simply strolling round right here at the moment, being part of it, feeling the vitality within the constructing, it fires me up understanding that I made the proper resolution to come back up right here.”

Tennessee and Buffalo have met in every of the final 4 seasons. They cut up these contests, and three of the 4 have been determined by seven factors or fewer.

Quessenberry’s profession was almost derailed earlier than it began by Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (he was on Houston’s reserve/non-football sickness checklist from 2014-16). He joined the Titans in 2018 as a member of the follow squad, made his first NFL begin in 2020 and was a full-time starter at proper deal with final season.

In all, he has performed 35 NFL video games and has began 23 of them.

“Principally, I simply thought (Buffalo) was the proper match, based mostly on the whole lot I’ve seen and discovered and researched and talked to guys about,” Quessenberry mentioned. “… (Saffold) was positively any individual I leaned on, and I’d like to play some extra soccer with Rodger.”

Along with the offensive linemen, the Payments added free agent defensive lineman DaQuan Jones, who performed for the Titans from 2014-20, earlier this offseason.