"Trent Edwards was not taking anything for granted as he walked off the practice field after the Buffalo Bills' first training camp workout of 2010.

Edwards was back in the position he held each of the past two training camps: No.‚1 on the Bills' quarterback depth chart.

But the one constant in Edwards' career thus far has been change. After all, he has had four offensive coordinators and seven starting left tackles in his Bills tenure, which began in 2007. The 26-year-old Edwards knows he's going to have to play well over the next 44 days to hold that No.‚1 job when the Bills open their season at Ralph Wilson Stadium against the Miami Dolphins on Sept. 12.

Asked what it means to get the nod from new coach Chan Gailey to start camp, Edwards said: "Honestly, it just means I'm working with the ones right now. I feel like I still have a lot to learn, a long way to go, but I must be doing something right. .‚.‚. So it's nice that you're appreciated for what you've done in the past. But that's in the past now, we need to grow off that and get ready for the Dolphins in Week One."

Gailey told the quarterbacks about their pecking order at a morning meeting on Thursday. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brian Brohm will rotate as the No.‚2 man behind Edwards. Rookie seventh-round draft pick Levi Brown is No.‚4.

"After evaluating all the OTA and minicamp things, we just felt like Trent deserved to start the training camp with the first group," Gailey said. "We'll have the other guys, Fitz and Brian, alternating with the twos during the course of the first few weeks here. And then we'll get Levi as many reps as we can get him. But that was how we evaluated it coming out of the OTAs."

What did Gailey like about Edwards in the spring?

"Well, he just made a lot more plays that we thought were positive plays during the course of the minicamps and OTAs," Gailey said. "He did a good job of handling the team. He did a good job when he had the threes, as well as when he had the ones. And that was impressive to me, to be able to go out there and work with whoever he was throwing with.""