[2][3] The Bills gained 5.0 yards per carry as a team, tied for the league lead.
During the offseason, the Bills removed former coach Buster Ramsey and hired Lou Saban to helm the team.
The Bills also picked up former Chargers quarterback Jack Kemp off the waiver wire.
Kemp had a broken hand, and as such could not play until the twelfth game of the season, but he would prove to be the best Bills quarterback of the 1960s.
Unfortunately for all parties, Davis was diagnosed with acute monocytic leukemia in the summer of 1962, and the Browns barred him from playing for the team (despite the cancer being in remission by the time the preseason began).