'One of the stinging criticisms levied against the Bills is that with a 16-year playoff drought hanging around their collective necks, they didn't have the luxury of picking a player who probably won't be of much use to them this season. In effect, this is lining up as a redshirt year for Lawson, similar to what Jacksonville went through in 2015 when its first-round pick, edge rusher Dante Fowler, was felled by a knee injury on the first day of a rookie minicamp practice and was lost for the season.'