PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Bills have agreed to terms on a one-year deal with outside linebacker/defensive end Quentin Groves, a source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Caplan.
Groves, 31, offers some positional versatility to the Bills along their banged-up defensive front seven. At 6-foot-3 and 265 pounds, he has experience playing as a defensive end in a 4-3 scheme and as an outside linebacker and inside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme.
The Bills are in need of depth at defensive end after a probable season-ending knee injury to Jarius Wynn and at inside linebacker after a probable season-ending knee injury to Ty Powell.
Groves is joining his seventh NFL team after previous stints with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans. A second-round pick by Jacksonville in 2008, he has generally been a disappointment as a pass rusher, posting 9.5 sacks in 100 career games (32 starts).
The Bills worked out Groves on Monday, along with veteran defensive tackle Red Bryant and defensive end Marcus Benard.
One NFL GM recently told Caplan that he saw Bryant, who turned 31 in April, as a part-time player and would only use him on 20-25 plays per game.
