It’s been more than 20 years since Eric Moulds walked into the Buffalo Bills locker room as the team’s wide-eyed first-round pick back in 1996.



He looked around and saw legendary coach Marv Levy and a host of future Hall-of-Famers, including Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed and Bruce Smith. Despite over 2,000 career receiving yards at Mississippi State, Moulds came into the room as a nobody needing to work his way up Buffalo’s wide receiver depth chart.



“Marv wasn’t too keen on playing rookies a lot,” Moulds recalled in an interview with The Athletic.



And Moulds struggled. He had just 20 catches for 279 yards and two touchdowns as a rookie. He followed that up with 294 yards on 29 catches and zero touchdowns.



Yet as he spoke from his home in Charlotte, N.C. last week, days before his 45th birthday, Moulds could look back on a decorated career in Buffalo. He’s second in franchise history with over 9,000...