‘Also, with all of the additions made over the last month or so, it’s going to be hard for some of the Bills’ late round picks to even make the roster. That’s a good problem to have for any team, but one which may entice Beane to decide he doesn’t need to keep all of those selections and use one or more to package together to move up early. He may be comfortable with only coming out of this draft with seven or eight total players instead of the ten he’s scheduled to select.’
Archives for April 2019
Joe B: 2019 NFL Mock Draft No. 6
‘TE TJ Hockenson, Iowa.’
Bills superfan Pancho Billa hospitalized again
‘Late Sunday night, Castro tweeted he was again in the emergency room in Dallas, but is confident he will be okay. He told us Saturday he will fight to be able to be at the Bills home-opener and Thanksgiving games.’
Bills sign TJ Yeldon
‘Yeldon looks to fit in as the third running back behind LeSean McCoy and Frank Gore, but should see significant time on third downs.’
Bills add depth at RB signing free agent T.J. Yeldon
‘Yeldon, 25, has spent his first four seasons in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars, after the club made him a second-round pick in the 2015 NFL draft.’
Bills Today: ESPN’s predictions for the first three rounds of the draft
‘The mock obviously doesn’t include any trades and general manager Brandon Beane has not shied away from making trades on draft night before. The Bills could end up with one or none of these players depending on how things shake up the first two nights of the draft.’
Iowa’s T.J. Hockenson would fill Bills’ epic drought at tight end
‘The case for Hockenson: It’s unfair to call any player the “next Rob Gronkowski,” but the Iowa tight end shows elite ability to make plays down the seam and should be one of the better blocking tight ends in the league right away. At 6-foot-4 3/4 and 251 pounds, he ran 4.70 seconds in the 40-yard dash, the same time as Eagles Pro Bowler Zach Ertz. Gronkowski ran roughly the same (a hand-timed 4.68) entering the 2010 draft. The 6-6, 258-pound Gronkowski is a tad bigger (his arm length is 34 1/4 vs. 32 1/4 for Hockenson). NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah said Jason Witten, Dallas’ 11-time Pro Bowler, is a better comparison.’
Pollock: Even the Bills will hold their own mock draft
‘“YOU TRY and let the board to fall (as you imagine it will),” Beane said. “We make every scout the GM of a team and our pro (player specialists) go through what we see their team needs are. Obviously, you’re not necessarily supposed to draft for need, but teams still do it. At that point, you start looking to see where need and skill level fit.”‘
Buffalo Bills management touts new training facility as ‘best in the NFL’; State-of-the art technology makes Buffalo a destination
‘“The Pegulas said they wanted best in class, they wanted the best facility in the NFL,” said Ciano. “Their main question was, ‘What can we do to help our players succeed?’ (They went) to all avenues to do that.”’
Sullivan: With McDermott in charge, expect Bills to look ‘D’ at draft
‘My educated guess? They’ll go for a defensive lineman with their first pick — a three-technique tackle or a rush end. Beane said he’ll take the “best player,” which is generally the case. I don’t recall any GM ever drafting someone in the first round and saying, “We took this guy, but he’s not the best player.”’
Capaccio: What to do with the ninth overall pick?
‘So, I say it’s about 50/50 that we hear commissioner Roger Goodell read a card turned in by the Bills with a player’s name on it at No. 9.’
Bills Today: ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. thinks people are sleeping on Bills
‘”I believe in Josh Allen,” Kiper said. “I think the Bills fans do and I know that team does internally and that organization does. Build around Josh, keep that defense going and I think the Bills could be the surprise team of the NFL this season.”’
Why Bills could achieve Brandon Beane’s ‘best player available’ this year
‘“I do think I can sit here and say that I don’t feel we have a glaring hole,” Beane said. “I’m never going to say that we (don’t) have positions that are stronger than others. … We still do have ‘needs,’ but we’re not going into the draft with a glaring hole. That was the focus and will be the focus area in free agency. At the minimum, we’ve at least accomplished that.”’
Inside the Bills: New sports performance center viewed as ‘clearly the best’ in NFL
‘“I think it’s a game-changer for us,” General Manager Brandon Beane said. “This is the one thing that we didn’t have that was top level, and we went from probably below average to the best — I think clearly the best.”’
One-on-One Coverage: Terrance Gray’s football dream led him to Bills’ scouting role
‘“He’s a guy that I thought could be a young riser and had a lot of qualities that just needed experience,” Beane said.’