Bills Ship Backup Center Sedrick Van Pran-Granger to the Colts
Tom Pelissero tweeted: 'Trade! The Bills are sending C Sedrick Van Pran-Granger to the Colts, per source.'
The have officially ended their backup center competition by shipping Sedrick Van Pran-Granger to the . Tom Pelissero broke the news on Sunday, confirming that the late-August roster churn is in full swing.
Trading a backup offensive lineman right before final cuts is the NFL equivalent of returning a slightly used blender to the store because you found a different one on sale. had a camp battle brewing between Van Pran-Granger and Lloyd Cushenberry, and this move makes it pretty clear who won the clipboard duties.
Van Pran-Granger is entering the third year of his four-year, $4.38 million rookie deal. The 24-year-old out of Georgia has logged 31 games and exactly two starts since grabbed him in the fifth round of the 2024 draft. Moving him now leaves the Bills with a microscopic $177,626 dead cap hit, which is basically couch change in modern NFL accounting.
For the Colts, this is a cheap dart throw at offensive line depth after wrapping up their preseason with a 25-16 loss to the . If you are looking at futures markets for the offense, having a 315-pound insurance policy who already knows how to survive an NFL training camp is a quiet but necessary upgrade.
just finished their exhibition slate with a 28-27 win over the and can now finalize their 53-man roster without the extra clutter. Van Pran-Granger will pack his bags for Indy, where he has about five minutes to learn the playbook before Week 1 kicks off.