Ralonzo

This release doesn't suit me.

I am also drinking for the heroic run to 8th worst place in the league for the Sabres. Maybe not this much. I do like 47's play of late, plus he has the best nickname ever... Reimer "The Ancient Mariner"

Well there ya go. Buffalo tells the entire NFL "Don't expect us to reach for a CB with our top pick" right? Right?

Alfred Collins was on the board at the Farmer pick. Most of us would have taken Collins/Revel in some order. Swinson at 109 was obvious as well. Most of the later picks had better options for my liking.

Dont'e Thornton to Ravens at 203, Isaac Teslaa to Dolphins at 224. Picking the safety at 30 had a domino effect on the draft. Mukuba at 132 would have been a coup. Kabeldue at that slot makes a hell of a lot more sense than McLaughin at 169 where you get your WR5 with upside instead. Brashard Smith is fine for 177 until you see Jaydon Blue at 187... I know they didn't do trade ups here but I would hope if Beane sees Chris Paul at 160 he goes and gets him instead of settling for Kobe King at 170.

This is the logic behind Bruce Nolan thinking the Bills may be favoring Azarayeh Thomas with the first pick after appropriate trade-down, as his strength is not necessarily carrying receivers downfield at 4.5+ but using his length and physicality to affect their short releases and quick-hitting routes. He's not necessarily suitable to traditional McD palms and pattern-matching but that has hopefully been solved often enough by KC where a change is in order. Or, look to Amos who can play both man and zone responsibilites effectively enough. 1-techs don't usually go early in any draft but this is one with a dozen guys who could potentially start 2-downs and probably another 10-20 who'd be suitable to back up DayQuil this year. What would frustrate me is they've alluded to going back to their previous approach that covets no-ceiling picks as dedicated Special Teams guys.

Peckernose on First Things Later Maybe has Bills passing on Derrick Harmon at 30 to select Trey Amos. Shockingly, he then has the Chiefs selecting Harmon at 31.

I'm drifting steadily from the belief the Bills can take a trade-down from 30 into mid-30's and secure Amos, to believing if the Bills think Amos is The Guy they'll have to take him at 30. It's just a matter if they believe he's a tier with Thomas/Hairston/Porter/Morrison/Revel, or his own level below Barron/Johnson. If it's the latter, they pick him at 30. Edit: Benjamin Morrison, not Benjamin Harrison. He's not a President yet. Also, Revel.

Amos is tops in forced incompletion rate. That's production for a CB. He checked the boxes at the combine as well.

Louisiana, Kansas... close enough. The charts say Amos is relatively good in this class... but this class is relatively weak compared to '24.

Who didn't see this coming? His name is literally "I Am A Leave".

2 trades: 1) BUF-TEN : #30+177 -> #35+103 2) BUF-DAL : #56+62 -> #47+76+204 (Dallas had traded down #44 already with Arizona)

Brugler has him CB106. Not the 106th best player... the 106th best CB. Runs 4.59, 5'10" or so, but does have longer arms for his size. Doesn't really sound like even a priority UDFA.

Feels like if the Bills don't get their CB up high there's some options in the 5th between him, MacWilliams, Corie Black, Bilhal Kone, Zah Frazier. All can run.

This ^^^ ideally the Bills can fit their draft picks to the board by value. I think I stated up there somewhere the ideal scenario is to trade down slightly from 30 to 35-40 range where the value is right for corners, and then trade up slightly from 56 to around 50 for your 1T. In some scenarios, Grant makes it down to the mid-30s and the Bills take him anyway, but then you have ammo to move up from 56 to secure your corner. Then you have the options of someone sticking out on your board at 62 at edge (Swinson?) or offer a tradeback if there's a position sticking out for some other team that can offer a 3 and a 4. That would be optimal in this draft, what I want out of the top-2 is a top CB (Hairston/Amos/Revel/Morrison) AND a top 1T (Grant/Collins/Tyleik) or EDGE (Landon Jackson, Ezeiruaku?). There's 1T's at all value levels throughout the draft.

I wouldn't love doubling up on 1T with the top 2 picks you hold when you look at the guys who project to still be available at 169: Jamaree Caldwell Oregon, Nazir Stackhouse UGA, Yahya Black Iowa, Zeek Biggers GT, Cam Horsley BC, Elijah Simmon Tenn... Poor use of assets at a non-premium position, despite the Bills' lack there.

Would like to see Chimere ***** with one of the 5th's just so SDS has to tweak the filter. Was going over the CBS mock https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2025-nfl-seven-round-mock-draft-three-trades-in-round-1-before-browns-and-giants-select-qbs-on-day-2/, and and I was very ok with the first four picks - Grant, Porter, Ezeiraku, Dont'e Thornton. But looking into how they pegged the later round (i.e. sleeper which is why it's in this thread) picks... 132) Caleb Ransaw CB Tulane. So he can run but isn't really productive... maybe look at Corie Black from OSU or Bilhal Kone from Western Michigan? 169) Cam Horsley DT Boston College. Doubling up on 1T is something a lot of TSW is doing, fair value here. There's a lot of these 1T's to pick from in this range, Stackhouse from Georgia, Biggers from GT, Yahya Black from Iowa, Jamaree Caldwell from Oregon, Elijah Simmons Tennessee, etc etc there's really a lot of them. 170) CJ Dippre TE Alabama. Buscaglia has zeroed in on him too as the Morris replacement as a core-4 ST guy. He and Fidone from Nebraska seem like those kinds of guys. 173) Cory Kiner RB Cincinnati. Uhh? Brashard Smith from SMU and Travor Etienne are still on the board and this is the pick? Slow, small, drops the football? Nope. 177) Maxen Hook S Toledo. He's yet another box-type, where the Bills need a free-type who has range and can go get the ball in the air, and in that area there's projectable guys like Marquis Sigle from K State, or JJ Roberts from Marshall as a poor man's Mukuba/Bowman. (Kitan Crawford went 162 to the Jets, boooo) 206) Elijah Ponder EDGE Cal-Poly for #206 recently, I started looking in and seems like a toolsy guy who beat up on inferior opponents which is fine at this point to see if he can step up a couple levels. I think we know what Kingsley Jonathan's ceiling is by now and it's practice squad.

Buscaglia has Femi Oladejo at #56 in his mock from this morning. But then he has Revel at #62 and Mukuba at #109, and one of my sleeper types at 128 after a trade up, Brashard Smith who'd be plan B if you don't get Giddens... The strategery that has been most successful to me in mocks, has been two trades to turn 30 and 56-or-62 into three picks, mid-late 30's for the CB, something 50ish for Tyleik or Collins, and a 3rd rounder for an edge or safety, taking the other at the remainder of 56/62. 4 picks to fortify the defense on Days 1+2. There are other guys the Bills can target at WR, RB, OL and TE that can be had Day 3. Buscaglia's getting closer to that but it's a lot of assumptions on who might trade up and why - best case is someone needs to jump KC for tackle. Or KC can just give up 95 to move up a slot!

Porter for sure was a reach where he was taken in this mock. He's usually in play at 62 let alone 56.

With pick #54 in the TSW 2.0 draft, the Packers select Benjamin Morrison, CB, Notre Dame. This pick is made with an eye toward life after Jaire, and also this is the last of the tier-1/2 CB's left due to a run on them early in the round and is sticking up on our board. While we see a plethora of tier-2 and tier-3 receivers we now feel we can get a productive player later in the draft. Morrison dropped due to injury concerns but when he's right he can absolutely be a shutdown CB1. San Diego and @Doc Brown are on the clock.

Both would be borderline firsts I think. Revel was referenced as potential mid-1st before the knee.

1) Baylon Spector 2) It's the only way to be sure

I'm just thinking now they looked at the options in this draft and just decided to extend Bernard. There really isn't a prototype of the "McD Dream" for Mike in the draft. I did a mock where I had Stutsman come to 132 so I kind of had to pull the trigger on the hopes his coverage shortcoming is experience and not ability based, because he's the one guy who has length and ranges sideline-to-sideline like Tremaine does, but will shed a blocker and fill a hole like Tremaine doesn't. Bernard can do both at an adequate level but is starting to show the toll it takes at his size.

This was the Belichickian "trade all over the board" draft. BUF-TEN #30+177 -> #35+103 BUF-ATL #56+109 -> #46 BUF-ARI #62 -> #78+115 BUF-SF #115 -> #138+147 BUF-CLE #173 -> #192+200 2 DT 2 EDGE 2 CB, S, LB. We're fixing this thing one way or another.

I want to get back to this. Paul seems to be the body type who'd only backup the Will (Milano). Is Dorian Williams going to be backing up Bernard? A lot of the difficulty in the Bills' scheme is you need a Mike who can thump the run AND cover a zone, which is fine when you got Keuchley but you can't just plug in a long rangy guy who can run (see: Tremaine and my concerns about Stutsman) I'm all for shooting Bail Inspector into the sun and all, but I want to understand the need and the fit for Paul for my mocks, I see him at the top of the 4th pretty often but certainly don't see spending 109 on him. Just wondering if he's that much better than a guy like Bassa or Mondon later. I could understand as a set-up to release Milano for '26.