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Lorenzo Alexander (57) takes the field during Buffalo Bills training camp at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y., Saturday July 30, 2016.Scott Schild | sschild@newyorkupstate.com

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Lorenzo Alexander has been generating his fair share of pressure on the field for the Buffalo Bills. It should be no surprise that Alexander is generating attention off the field after his strong start.

Alexander was recently interviewed by Kalyn Kahler of the MMQB. He discussed a wide variety of topics with the site including the fact that he's not a fan of the journeyman label that some have given him.

"I can't stand that," Alexander told Kahler. "They act like I wasn't in one place. I played in Washington for seven years--that is double the NFL average! If you want to call me a journeyman, because I've played on three teams in four years, I guess technically I have become one. But that was more out of having an injury, and I signed a free-agent deal when I left Washington and went to Oakland last year because they needed an older veteran in the room, and now I am in Buffalo. The way I am playing now and the way I have established myself up in Buffalo, I don't see myself bouncing around anymore. Hopefully I will be fortunate enough to stay up here and finish my career. 'Journeyman' makes it sound like you are not established in the league. I've been around for 12 years; it's just a weird term."

Journeymen don't usually play for one team, in this case Washington, for seven seasons and they certainly don't go to the Pro Bowl as Alexander did in 2012. Alexander has good reason to dislike being labeled as a journeyman.

When the interview with Alexander took place, he was leading the NFL in sacks. Alexander admitted that it was a surreal feeling.

"It is surreal," Alexander stated. "I got guys that I've played with around the league reaching out, like Brian Orakpo--he has six sacks right now, and we played together for a long time. And Larry Fitzgerald hit me up and congratulated me on the way I'm playing. We played together in Arizona and he said, "I see you out there balling, good job man, keep doing your thing." Derek Carr hit me up, just some guys that I have played with within the last three or four years, just congratulating me on the way I've started the season. Guys that know me and know how much work I put into this, just to have that respect and guys congratulating me is cool. But at the same time I understand that it is only through Week 5. I don't want to be a he-starts-fast-but-where-is-he-now guy. The more you play, the more people have film on you and understand what you like to do; they understand your tendencies, so I want to still be able to produce when people are starting to put a book on you as far as how you play football. When they start attacking you a little bit differently, blocking you a little bit differently, how do you respond? I've seen guys get knocked down real quick. I am trying to stay even keeled through all of this and continue to do the things that I've been doing to help the team win."

Although Alexander has been one of Buffalo's best defensive players through the first five weeks of the season, he's okay with his role diminishing once Shaq Lawson returns.

"I really don't know (How his role will change)," Alexander told MMQB's Kahler. "The coaches are figuring out a plan to integrate him and bring him along. Obviously Shaq is a rookie but he has great talent and ability, and that's why we took him so high. We definitely want him out there, so if my role diminishes, I'm fine with that. I am all about what is best for the team, because I want to go to the playoffs and win a championship. There is no ego with me. I was undrafted, so I know what it is about when you play this game. It is about winning and doing whatever it takes. I really don't care because I can contribute to this team in so many different ways."

Alexander's lack of ego and team-first attitude is rare in today's NFL. Although he'll certainly lose some playing time upon Lawson's return, Buffalo will certainly find ways to keep him on the field.