David Quessenberry signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills. Quessenberry played for the Tennessee Titans from 2019-2021.
Bills signed former Titans’ OL David Quessenberry to a one-year deal.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 21, 2022
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David Quessenberry, Buffalo Bills, Agree to Contract
The Houston Texans drafted Quessenberry out of San Jose St. in round six (176 overall) of the 2013 NFL Draft. Quessenberry’s career, however, began tragically. In early September 2013, he broke his foot during practice, ending his rookie season. During next season’s training camp, he experienced the first symptoms of a soon-to-be non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis.
After battling and beating cancer Quessenberry showed back up in Houston to battle on the NFL gridiron. The former sixth-round pick and now cancer survivor found his way to the Texans practice squad in 2017 following an inspiring training camp and pre-season. Appropriately to his story, he suited up for his first NFL game on Christmas Day, 2017.
David Quessenberry, however, would not be a Texans for another season. Following the 2018 pre-season, the Texans cut him. Eventually he landed on the Tennessee Titans practice squad a week later. There, however, he continued to fight and maintained a position on the practice squad over 2018, 2019, and 2020, even suiting for four games in 2019.
Remarkably, Quessenberry achieved another life-long dream, catching a touchdown pass in a match against the Indianapolis Colts on 15 September 2019. The Titans used their reserve lineman as a tight end, allowing Marcus Mariota to fake the handoff and easily toss the ball to Quessenberry open in the back of the endzone.
Quessenberry’s spent his last day on the practice squad on 27 October 2020. That season he played 56 percent of the Titans offensive snaps. In 2021 he completed overcoming innumerable odds and started 100 percent of snaps for the Titans. The story is both inspiring for the odds overcome and the amount of dedication and work put in to earn an NFL starting job eight years after draft day.
However, Quessenberry does still struggle in pass protection, yielding 11 sacks in 2021. While that is a number he must work to lower, his run protection is what shines on a stalwart Titans line. David Quessenberry is a key member to the Titans running attack.
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