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Good Luck in the draft Brandon and thanks to all the people involved.

Our house was split between Kemp and Lamonica. I was for Daryl. Thanks for all the memories!

It seems to me that the Bills could get out of the contract after the 2025 season for $10M of dead money (10% of the contract value). Diggs starts the 2025 season at 31 and turns 32 late in the season. There isn't a March 2026 added guarantee of any kind. I don't see any issues at all.

What I expect from Speedy this year is to stay healthy, work on his skills and put in a great effort in making the team as a return man and backup WR. Expecting anything more or less just seems wrong. Good luck young man.

There has to be something in the new CBA that makes a team match the contract for only a certain period of time. One way or another Beane used the "fine print" to his advantage. Go Bills.

It costs money.

Who?

For the Total Cap hit. What it will work out to for the Top 51 Cap will be around $2.5M or so.

I mentioned in my OP that I am not familiar with the site or who is listing the depth. I also mentioned your points on the RG/LG situation. My main purpose was to get opinions from the board as to "their" depth projection. The good point of the site is it is attempting to but together a depth chart at all at this time of year. It's the only one I could find that is keeping up with al the new signing. The Bills "official" depth chart will not be out for a long long time. Good catch on the Dirty Red positioning! I didn't notice that.

Mandatory is a bit strong of a phrase but I still think it's important enough to consider in the first 3 rounds Though I would take another Gabe David in the 4th!

The WR starters for Game #1 are pretty set but yes, a WR in the first 2 days is pretty much mandatory.

Josh will need to work on his timing with Crowder. That's probably Job #1. His swing/screens with Devin and Duke is probably second. In his general passing I believe one of his weakest (if you can call it that) is his WR screens. I'm not sure if that was play designs or bad timing with Josh and the WRs but there seems to be a lot of room for improvement. All that said it's not a lot to worry about. I would imagine he wants to work on QB generalship and manipulating defenses even more!

You bring up some good points. Safford has played some RG. Good stuff to watch for come the summer.

I'm loving every minute of it.

It's most definitely his last chance this training camp.

My hope is this move amounts to nothing more than the Titanic and Andrea Doria trading their deck chairs!

Yeah I posted they have that wrong. Also Safford at RG. It's most likely Bates RG and Safford LG. I'm sure they will get that changed. Not to sure who handles the site but I found it a good tool to use at this time of year. Bills have nothing "official" until later in the year.

I can see them trying to trade for a vet QB but I don't think they will be in a great position to draft one. They should field a decent team so their 1st won't be that high of a pick and the other is the 49ers. I guess we will see next year.

Not really. Their first pick this year is a compensatory 3rd rounder. Thye got 2 1sts next year and now 2 3rds. I wouldn't call that "stacked". IMO.

Stroud has a good chance of being drafted. That's why I was figuring to use a 6th on him. One thing I believe the Bills don't want to have happen is a few of the top rated punters go and they end up with a guy that can't knock off Haack from the roster. I know it's "just a punter" but I don't see a player from Pick #185 having a reasonable chance other than a ST player making the roster. I'm finding it hard to see it any other way.

Looking at the depth roster I see CB, WR and IOL in the first 3 rounds. I am on board with RB, OT, LB and TE as later picks. Really like to see a punter in the 6th. Get a guy to push Haack off the roster and hope he is around for a long time.

Agree and I'm sure that is what Beane and McDermott are hoping for too. It's going to be a big year for AJ Epenesa. He needs to make a move to show he is NFL worthy. The DL roster also give Basham another year to learn. At least one needs to step and show their draft worth. If both improve things are looking great for the future.

LOL, that is my opinion too. You add the starters and 2nd players plus the 3 ST guys and that's 47. Only 6 spots from the remaining depth chart. I thought of posting this after discussions on later round draft picks.

Full contract signing bonus. That's what "dead money" would be if cut. 1st year total salary for a 6th is around $760K.

Much thanks '59! The site also has Safford as RG which probably isn't happening. I am curious as to what fans think about the starters and depth at DL.