The Bills are moving on from Sedrick Van Pran-Granger, sending the backup center to the Colts in a swap of Day 3 draft capital, according to Tom Pelissero.
Trade! The Bills are sending C Sedrick Van Pran-Granger to the Colts, per source.
The full terms came together fast. Buffalo gets a 2027 sixth-round pick, while Indianapolis gets Van Pran-Granger and a 2027 seventh-rounder headed the other way, per Pelissero. Jay Skurski confirmed the same breakdown independently through his own source.
As @TomPelissero reported, the #Bills are trading center Sedrick Van Pran-Granger to the Colts along with a 2027 seventh-round draft pick for a 2027 sixth-round pick, a league source confirms to @TBNSports.
This is about need more than value. Mike Chappell put it bluntly: the Colts had no choice but to look outside the building for a backup center because Dalton Tucker wasn't cutting it in camp. Indianapolis already has Tanor Bortolini entrenched as the starter, so this is purely about who backs him up and who steps in if he goes down.
Can confirm Colts getting help at C by trading for Bills' Sedrick Van Pran-Granger. Deal also involved swapping late-round picks. Indy had no choice but to look outside for a backup C. Dalton Tucker just wasn't the answer.
For Van Pran-Granger, it's a fresh start after a modest run in Buffalo. The Bills took him in the fifth round of the 2024 draft out of Georgia, where he'd been a three-year starter and First-Team All-American on a program that went 42-2 across his final 44 starts. He appeared in 16 games as a rookie but started just once, and this year's roster crunch made him expendable behind Buffalo's line depth.
That crunch is very real. Skurski noted he had Van Pran-Granger being traded in his final 53-man projection, and with this move plus Wednesday's cuts, the Bills' roster now sits at 75 players — still 22 moves away from the mandated limit, not counting Phidarian Mathis heading to the suspended list.
Both sides made it official fast, with Adam Schefter and the Colts themselves confirming the trade within the hour. It's a low-stakes, low-cost deal on paper — a seventh for a sixth, nothing more — but it plugs a real hole for Indianapolis heading into the season, and gives Van Pran-Granger a real shot to be a backup rather than a camp body.