 After the draft, Nix announced his resignation; Doug Whaley moved into the general manager position.A knee injury to Manuel and a season-ending concussion to Kolb almost forced the team to start undrafted rookie Jeff Tuel as their opening day starting quarterback; Manuel nonetheless recovered in time to start week 1 only to injure his other knee a few weeks later, which resulted in the signing of Thad Lewis (who himself had started a game as an undrafted rookie the previous year with the Cleveland Browns).The Bills finished 6-10 yet again and missed the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season.