For the first time since 2016, Derek Anderson will start an NFL game. On Wednesday, Bills coach Sean McDermott announced that the veteran quarterback will get the nod over Nathan Peterman when the Bills face the Colts on Sunday. 
Starter Josh Allen is out with an elbow injury, but he will not require major surgery and is considered week-to-week. The Bills turned to Peterman after Allen went down against the Texans, but he did not inspire confidence after yet another spotty performance. The Bills were quietly excited about the 2017 fifth-round pick last year, but they have little incentive to start him now.
Peterman has now occupied every possible spot on the Bills’ QB depth chart this season. The Pittsburgh product was set to be the club’s No. 2 QB behind A.J. McCarron and ahead of Allen, but September’s surprising trade propelled him to the top job. Peterman was atrocious in the season opener, however, and quickly ceded the starting gig to Allen. This week, he was primed to re-take the first-string assignment, but the newly-acquired Anderson has received the nod, despite having been in Buffalo for just over one week.
Anderson has 76 career NFL appearances under his belt, though he has not seen consistent action since his 2010 campaign with the Cardinals. He went just 2-7 that year, but he did lead the 2007 Browns to a 10-5 record in 15 starts en route to his only Pro Bowl nod.
Sign Kaepernick.
Kap won’t make them a playoff team, so what’s the point? start a shit qb, get the #1 pick, build from there and hope your franchise qb will have learned enough on the bench to be good next year.
Hasn’t played in 2 years and was terrible when he did start.
Sign anybody but Kap! He’s a cancer in the clubhouse !
Expert insight Bruce. So nice you had to say it twice?
Derek Anderson and the 2007 Browns coming out of nowhere and having a good year only to fade back into oblivion was one of the strongest memories of my childhood
The miracle of ’07!
This is a big mistake as any of us in our chosen profession, none of us were great when we started. You were trained in College and internships, then through trials and tribulations we refined our trade. No one expected you to be the veteran u r today.
This holds true for Allen and even Peterman
Aaron Rodgers had QB rating of 36.8 first year, second year a dismal 42.6, third after time and learning AND FAILING 106.0 rating.
If the lynch mob sat or traded the raw Rodgers we never have the HOF QB if today
Let Peterman play and when Allen is healthy you put him right back
99 percent of the time a raw player wont turn into Rodgers. Peterman is absolutely terrible and has no future in this leauge. Rodgers was under consideration to be the #1 overall pick. Peterman was a very late pick for a reason
Rodgers played 5 games in those first 2 years, threw 31 passes,and had 1 int for an int% of 3%. Nathan Peterman has played 6 games, threw 80 passes, and has 9 ints for an int% of 12%. In other words, Peterman has thrown ints at a rate 4 times higher than Rodgers in roughly the same time period.
The BIG question is after such terrible performances, why is Peterman still a member of the Bills? If he had not stunk so badly to this point, Anderson would not be starting. There has to be a better free agent QB out there that can serve as #2/#3.
He is only 35? Honestly I was thinking he was 41.
I believe he’s out of the 2005 draft
The Bills should cut Peterman and sign Joe Ferguson to tutor the youngster Anderson.
I honestly don’t know what Anderson was thinking. Did he not see how many times Allen got hit? It would be surprising if he lasted all 4 quarters this week.