Bills Feasted Well in Draft Party, Need a QB for Dessert

By anello1960  |   Monday, April 30, 2012  |  Comments( 429 )

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Ask former Bear's GM Jerry Angelo why he was fired in the off season and he probably would shove your microphone in your face. The elephant in the room is the fact that they did not have a backup QB on the roster who could win games and continue their playoff quest in 2011, among other reasons. The fact that they were in a similar situation a...
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Goose		 09:48 AM
04/30/2012
Good points, hopefully things will be better this year for Thigpen with no strike that shorten the off season last year. I have a feeling that the Bills were looking at Cousins before the Skins grabbed him.
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Mikey in CO		 12:39 PM
04/30/2012
They brought in QB Aaron Corp from the powerhouse Richmond.....
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Mikey in CO		 01:59 PM
04/30/2012
The Buffalo Bills signed a one-time elite major college quarterback recruit Sunday as an undrafted rookie free agent.

Aaron Corp, who started his college career at Southern California then played at Richmond the last two seasons, signed a three-year contract with the Bills. He picked Buffalo over four other teams, said his agent, Joe Linta.

Corp has good size -- at 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds -- a decent arm and good straight-ahead speed. What he did not have was much good fortune after joining Southern Cal as a five-star recruit in 2007. Corp picked the Trojans over Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Nebraska and Oregon. After red-shirting for a season, Corp sat behind Mark Sanchez in 2008.

In 2009, he won the starting job for coach Pete Carroll in spring, then broke his left fibula in fall camp. That allowed top freshman recruit Matt Barkley to step in and take the starting job. Corp got to start two games that year due to an injury to Barkley but didn't do well, and Barkley returned to the starting lineup. Barkley has gone on to establish himself as one of the top QBs in college football and likely will be a top pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Corp transferred to Richmond, the 2008 Football Championship Series national champion. He started five games in 2010 before suffering a season-ending knee injury.

He started all 11 games last fall, completing 63.7 percent of his passes. He passed for 244 yards a game and had 17 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. Richmond won its first three games, then finished the season with eight straight losses.

Corp set an FCS single game completion percentage record by hitting 31 of 34 passes (91.2 percent) in a 31-28 loss to Towson.

Corp showed good athleticism at the NFL Scouting Combine, running the 40-yard dash in 4.72 seconds, fifth best among quarterbacks at the scouting convention. He showed a good arm in his on-campus workout before the draft. NFL Draft Scout rated Corp 15th among quarterbacks in the draft. The National Football Post rated him ninth. There were 11 quarterbacks drafted.
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