QB-Josh Allen will just miss the 3,000 yard mark because of multiple injuries. He will throw for over 20 touchdowns but will come dangerously close to 20 interceptions as well, largely of the "throwing across your body into double coverage while running the other way variety." They will sign a third QB at some point to back up Barkley while Allen is out, and this QB probably will have played for the Carolina Panthers organization sometime in the past five years.
RB-The position will look a lot better than it did last year, but Gore will be more reliable than Singletary. Look for lots of drops in the flat/underthrown balls bouncing at their feet. Singletary kind of looks like he could be a fumbler.
WR-Someone is going to have a dreadful 4th quarter drop that costs the team a game, and that person could be anyone in the WR room, but is most likely going to be Zay Jones. (It could also, channeling the ghost of Charles Clay, be a tight end.) Robert Foster will have at least one game with 3 plays over 50 yards, but will probably end up getting cut before the season is over.
TE-Dawson Knox will lead the team in false starts. Lee Smith is a good candidate to say something racist/Trumpy enough to make national news.
OL-We all will have forgotten that the team signed Mitch Morse by season's end, because he will have been on IR since Week 2. Dion Dawkins will be quietly excellent and Feliciano will be quietly mediocre, but Feliciano will seem like the bigger deal since RG was such a revolving door last year.
DE-Someone is poised to have a big year working off the single team blocking that Ed Oliver causes, and it might be Jerry Hughes. (This might also be the year that Jerry Hughes actually gets ejected from a game.) Overall not an area of strength, though, and the draftniks will all be talking about how the Bills are one good pass-rusher away from being a quality defense.
DT-Star Lotulelei is the next middle of the season (or middle of a game) retirement. Ed Oliver will be nothing flashy statistically but will quietly dominate the line of scrimmage.
LB-Tremaine Edmunds leads the team in interceptions, but also in dumb plays when he's caught looking into the backfield and lets the tight end get away. Matt Milano probably can't keep pace with all the big plays from a year ago, and Lorenzo Alexander will have at least four sacks.
CB-There will be at least one game when neither Tre'Davious White or Levi Wallace is healthy enough to start. White will have an amazing year and won't get into the Pro Bowl.
S-They're both really good, so hopefully they stay healthy. I see either one of these guys as prime candidates for hosting another round of "The Bills' 12 Days of Christmas"
Special Teams-This could be rough. Hauschka will be fine as long somebody tells him before each extra point that it's really a field goal in disguise. Bojorquez is cut by week two. Isaiah McKenzie will get maybe two returns and will break both of them big, but for some reason or another Micah Hyde will end up handling most of the return duties and just kneeling/fair catching everything.
Coaching-Quotes to expect from this year:
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"We have a lot of confidence in Josh, and we know he'll bounce back quickly from this and use it as a losing opportunity."
"We really respect their organization, and we think it's just a very small minority of our fans that engage in that kind of behavior. I certainly don't think that it's an appropriate object to throw onto a football field."
"We just want to put our guys in the best position to make a play, and we really think that having a fullback on the field is the way to do that.
BONUS James Owen and Felix football predictions
James will be distraught when he loses his football for good due to the stitching unraveling. (Again.)
Owen will finally pick a team and stick with it, and it will be the Bills.
Felix will learn to stop biting people once he's tackled them.
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