Reid Ferguson to a three-year contract Lorenzo Alexander Jerseys 2019 , the team announced on Monday. As the special teams unit transitions to the tutelage of new coordinator Heath Farwell, Ferguson is the first core free agent to lock up a roster spot.Ferguson, 24, entered the NFL in 2016 out of LSU White Ramon Humber Jerseys , spending the season on Buffalo’s practice squad. The team elected to move on from Garrison Sanborn in 2017 and promoted Ferguson in his place; for the past two seasons, he’s been the long snapper.Ferguson was set to be an exclusive-rights free agent as the off-season begins. Now, he’ll be signed through the end of the 2021 season. This allows Buffalo to skip the ERFA and RFA tenders over the next two off-seasons, but likely keeps Ferguson’s salary about the same as those two years would have been.The Bills return Stephen Hauschka as their primary kicker Ramon Humber Jerseys 2019 , hoping to see him return to form after a back injury affected his kicking strength at the end of 2018. They still have a decision to make at punter, where Cory Carter and Corey Bojorquez both could compete for the roster spot in training camp as they return from injuries. The Bills didn’t know how the first round of the draft would unfold in front of them, but they did know one thing: They wanted to see more than one quarterback off the board in the first eight picks.Buffalo, drafting ninth White Jerry Hughes Jerseys , took quarterback Josh Allen in the first round last year and wasn’t interested in a quarterback this year. So as the Bills looked over their board, the best chance of getting one of their top-rated players was to have more than one quarterback selected among the first eight players.After Kyler Murray had already gone first overall and then the Giants took Daniel Jones sixth, Bills G.M. Brandon Beane said he knew he wouldn’t trade down because one of their top prospects would still be there.“Once the quarterback was taken by the Giants, Daniel Jones Jerry Hughes Jerseys 2019 , the board was sitting perfect. At that point, we knew we’re not moving back,” Beane said in a video published by the Bills.The video shows footage inside the Bills’ draft room of the team’s personnel people cheering when the ninth pick came up and Ed Oliver was still available. Oliver was one of the Bills’ favorite players, and a lot of mock drafts had him going off the board before the Bills picked. The Giants’ surprise decision paved the way for the Bills getting their man.