Terrel Bernard joins elite Bills company with eye-popping stat line in 1st quarter vs. Commanders

Buffalo Bills fans spent all five seasons of Tremaine Edmunds’ run with the team clamoring for more splash plays.

With Edmunds now in Chicago with the Bears after inking a massive free-agent contract back in March, second-year linebacker Terrel Bernard delivered a few splash plays in his place.

Bernard put together a first quarter for the history books. He recorded an interception to stop a Washington drive that had gone deep into Bills’ territory and sacked second-year Washington Commanders quarterback two times.

The monster first quarter from Bernard made him just the third Bills player since 1982 to record an interception and two sacks in the same game, per Mike Haim. He joins Bills legends Cornelius Bennett (1989) and Jerry Hughes (2020) – Hughes collected his interception and two sacks in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets.

Bernard ended two drives for the Commanders, who trail the Bills, 13-0, late in the second quarter at FedEx Field. Bernard picked off Howell on a 3rd and long play deep in his own zone and then forced the Commanders to punt with a sack on another third down play on the next drive.

Edmunds played five seasons with the Bills and only managed five interceptions in 76 career regular season games. Edmunds, the Bills’ 2018 first-round pick, finished his first season as the starting middle linebacker with two interceptions. Bernard now has two interceptions in his first three games as the starting middle linebacker for the Bills.