2002 Buffalo Bills season The 2002 Buffalo Bills season was the team ’ s forty - third season . The Bills acquired quarterback Drew Bledsoe from the New England Patriots on draft weekend in exchange for Buffalo ' s first round pick in the 2003 draft . ( The Bills would regain that first round pick via a sign - and - trade of Peerless Price , coming off a breakout season , to the Atlanta Falcons for Atlanta ' s first round pick after the 2002 season . ) Bledsoe brought instant credibility to Buffalo ' s inept passing game ; the Bills ' offense scored the 6th most points in the AFC in 2002 , after having scored the fifth fewest in the entire league the previous season . The Bills infamously drafted Mike Williams , a offensive tackle from Texas with the # 4 overall pick of the draft , with Miami ' s Bryant McKinnie still available . Williams spent only four seasons with the team . The Sporting News named Williams as the # 4 biggest NFL draft bust from 1989 – 2008 . Drew Bledsoe debuted as Bills quarterback against the team that knocked him out of the 2001 season . Bledsoe led the Bills to a 10 – 0 lead in the second quarter but a 98 - yard kick return by Chad Morton set off a Jets rally that tied the score at 17 at the half . The Jets snatched two Bledsoe INTs and took a 31 – 24 lead late in the fourth , but Bledsoe led the Bills down field and a 29 - yard touchdown throw to Eric Moulds in the final half - minute forced overtime . Morton returned the opening kick of overtime 96 yards for the game - winning score and a 37 – 31 final for the Jets . Bledsoe threw for 463 yards in Buffalo ' s second straight overtime game . A huge kick return by D ' Wayne Bates set up a two - yard Randy Moss touchdown catch in the third quarter , but this was immediately answered with a 90 - yard Charlie Rogers kick return touchdown . A 29 - yard Bates touchdown put the Vikings up 26 – 23 , but Doug Brien missed the PAT , and did so again after a Derrick Alexander touchdown for the Vikings . The game lead tied or changed 12 times as the game went on . After Mo Williams ran in a touchdown with 30 seconds remaining , Bledsoe completed a pass to Peerless Price that set up a 54 - yard Mike Hollis field goal on the final play of regulation . With the score tied at 39 Hollis missed another long FG try in the extra quarter , but the Bills defense forced a Vikings punt , and in the final five minutes of OT Bledsoe found Price at the Minnesota 30 - yard line for a 48 - yard touchdown and a 45 – 39 Bills win . Bledsoe became only the second quarterback in NFL history to throw a touchdown in overtime in three games ; coincidentally , he ' d beaten the Vikings in 1994 on a touchdown in overtime while quarterbacking the Patriots . The Bills opened this game with a Peerless Price touchdown catch from Drew Bledsoe . The Bears responded when Mike Brown recovered a fumble and ran it back 62 yards for a tying score . The Bills opened a 17 – 7 lead in the second until Jim Miller found David Terrell for a five - yard touchdown . An exchange of field goals left the two teams tied at 20 by the fourth quarter , then Bledsoe and Miller traded touchdowns – a one - yard Dave Moore catch for Buffalo followed by a John Davis three - yard catch for Chicago . Mike Hollis missed a 39 - yard field goal try and the game went to overtime , where Bledsoe finished it barely two minutes in with a 26 - yard score to Travis Henry and a 33 – 27 Buffalo win .