PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Eric Wood's shoes are tough to fill, and so far through a week of training camp, Ryan Groy and Russell Bodine seem equally up for trying out the job.

"I think it's pretty even. I think it's going well,” Groy said. “Both had our ups and downs. The playbook keeps expanding and we've been challenged every day to learn new things and keep it going and keep the tempo up mainly of the offense and communicating."

"It's one of those things, we're not getting into that between me and him,” Bodine added. “It's one of those, whoever's in there going to do their best make things run smooth. We just keep rotating days and let the chips fall where they may, I guess."

Bodine comes to the Bills having started every game his first four years in the league with the Bengals, so competition something he's not used to, although he’s also not shying away from it.

"Wouldn't really expect anything different. When you've been somewhere else and you've got a guy that's been here for a few years, obviously you've got to earn your place,” he said. “I don't know that the Bills are any different than anywhere else. Nothing's given to you in this league and you've got to come in and be ready for that."

On the flip side, Groy's played 36 games for the Bills in three seasons, but only earning eight starts, mainly when Wood broke his leg midway through the 2016 season.

Instead, he's been the team's utility lineman, playing both center and guard. Head coach Sean McDermott says he loves Groy's position flexibility, but Groy himself is ready to put that behind him.

"They always say the more you can do, the less you get paid, but the longer you stay around,” Groy said. “I'm not going to say that's true or not, but that is a saying. I think it's important. Everybody needs a utility guy. Everybody needs someone that can play both positions. I'm not going to say exactly that it's hurt me, but I don't know that it's helped me at all. In your first couple years when you're younger you need to play both positions, but as you go on you need to be a starter. You need to be a guy."

As training camp rolls along, we'll see if it's Groy or Bodine who becomes the Bills guy in the middle.