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Edwards opens Bills camp as QB starter

Published Jul. 29, 2010 1:00 a.m. ET

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Trent Edwards has emerged as the leading contender in the Buffalo Bills quarterback competition as the team opened training camp.

Edwards had a majority of practice time in the first 45 minutes of the Bills first practice Thursday, and opened each of the individual drills by taking the first snap. Coach Chan Gailey said last month he intended to open camp by establishing a pecking order after providing his three quarterbacks equal time during the team's offseason minicamps.

Edwards opened camp by getting 10 minutes during a walkthrough period, followed by Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brian Brohm, who got about four minutes each.

Gailey added the competition would continue as he gauged the players' performance through the preseason.

For Edwards, this marks an opportunity for him to reclaim the job he lost to Fitzpatrick midway through last season. He also gets a clean slate with Gailey, who was hired in January after the team fired Dick Jauron in November.

Buffalo's 2007 third-round draft pick out of Stanford, Edwards has had an up-and-down career with the Bills. After supplanting J.P. Losman as the starter during his rookie season, Edwards took over the job full-time in 2008.

After getting the Bills off to a 5-1 start in 2008, Edwards and the offense struggled as the team wound up losing eight of its final 10 games.

Edwards was already considered the front-runner for the job as he entered this year with the most statistical categories, including career starts (30), pass attempts (826), yards (5,498) and touchdowns (24) during his three NFL seasons. Fitzpatrick, entering his sixth season, was next with 23 starts, 4,104 yards and 21 touchdowns.

Brohm is regarded as a raw talent. Selected by Green Bay in the second round of the 2008 draft out of Louisville, Brohm eventually landed in Buffalo last November when the team signed him off the Packers practice squad.

He struggled in his first career start last season, going 17 of 29 for 146 yards and two interceptions in Buffalo's 31-3 loss at Atlanta in December.

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