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Nathan Peterman's career in the NFL, to date, has been the confluence of worst-case scenarios. As a rookie, he was used to pushing a starting quarterback to his height in hopes of reviving a new era of half-happy rebuilding. In second year, he was named the leader of the saddest quarterback race in the league, and was tasked with keeping a spot of choice for the most conflicting QB prospect of 2018.
When Buffalo sees a problem, his solution is to launch Peterman, whether he is ready or able to handle it. If the bills were stuck in an evacuation room, the solution of head coach Sean McDermott would be to throw Peterman's lifeless body to the closed door for an hour. The second-year quarterback was forced to three starts with the club. He did not finish any of them.
And now, it seems he will not have the chance to get a fourth place.
In five games as a professional, Peterman has a quarterback score of 25.4. This is remarkable because:
a) the scale goes up to 158.3 and
b) Printing the ball in the grass 40 times per game would have a rating of 39.6.
But everything was not bad for Peterman. Here are the moments on which Bills fans can remember.
2. Peterman's performance at the time saints convinces Buffalo that it is the future.
The Bills were completely crushed as part of the Saints Renewal in 2017, but the defeat gave Buffalo a glimmer of hope when its 23-year-old quarterback played catch-up with five minutes of play in a game. from 47-3. Peterman completed five of his six assists in the last race of his team, leading the Bills' 75-yard run to reduce New Orleans's gap to just 37 points. His touchdown pass to Nick O'Leary was not easy, but he delighted the other 45 New Era Stadium fans who had not yet fled to the parking lot to pitch their opponents across the tables.
Peterman would follow this demonstration by doing the story the following week. Not in a good way, notice.
1. Nathan Peterman throws a touchdown pass, wins the game that places the Bills in the playoffs (a bit)
A knee injury from Tyrod Taylor meant the Bills Week 14 Pro Bowl quarterback against a Colts team that would end his season with three wins. Buffalo was 6-6 years old and hung on the periphery of the playoff race, hoping to break a post-season drought that haunted western New York at the turn of the millennium. The football gods, smiling on them, threw a foot of snow on Orchard Park and washed their hands of the whole event.
Rising from their indifference like a phoenix made of Arby and Steel Reserve wrappings, was Peterman. His 8-yard touchdown touched the defenders of two Colts and was delivered to Kelvin Benjamin to give the Bills a 7-0 lead.
A quarter later, Peterman will not be affected by the shock, leaving third Joe Webb to complete the win that would help Buffalo play in the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
Godspeed, Nathan Peterman. We'll see you again after Josh Allen passes four passes over the end of his check-down in December.
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