List of draft players Bills have met with

[Pete]

Update April 22- please let me know if Im missing someone

 

Buffalo Official 30 visits-

 

 

James Cook RB Georgia

Nicholas Petit-Frere OT OSU

Case Otten TE Wash

Isaiah Likely TE Coastal Carolina

Isaiah Spiller RB Texas A &M

Nick Cross S Maryland

Lewis Cine S Georgia

Andrew Booth CB Clemson

Martin Emerson CB Miss State

Sean Rhyan OG UCLA

Kevin Marks RB Buffalo(Doesn’t count)

James Mitchell TE Virginia Tech

Spencer Buford OG UTSA

Breece Hall RB Iowa State

Christian Harris LB Alabama

Dylan Parham OG Memphis

Chad Muma LB Wyoming

John Metchie WR Alabama

Brandon Smith LB Penn State(unsure if it counts but I think Penn State is within the Bills territory)

 

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other visits:

 

Malik Willis - QB Liberty

 

Cam Jurgens - C/G Nebraska

Logan Bruss - C/G Wisconsin
Zion Johnson - C/G Boston College
Lecitus Smith - G Virginia Tech
Dohnovan West - C/G Arizona State
Kenyon Green - C/G Texas A&M

Scott Rhyan-IOL

Nicholas Petiti-Frere -OT

 

Max Borghi - RB Washington State
Rachaad White - RB Arizona State

Isiah Spiller-RB

James Cook-RB

 

Charli Kolar TE Iowa State

Trey McBride TE Col State

Jeleni Woods-Virginia

Jeremy Ruckert TE Ohio State

James Mitchell-TE-VT

Cade Otton - TE Washington

Isaiah Likely TE

 

Jameson Williams- WR Bama
Treylon Burks - WR Arkansas
Garrett Wilson - WR OS
Chris Olave - WR OSU
John Metchie III - WR Bama

Cole Turner WR

 

Jordan Davis - DT Georgia
Perrion Winfrey - DT Oklahoma
Phidarian Mathis - DT Bama

Arnold Ebiketie - DE

 

Chad Muma LB

Christian Harris-LB Alabama

Brandon Smith - LB PSU
Darrian Beavers - LB Cincinnati

D'Marco Jackson LB

Troy Anderson, LB

 

Josh Thompson - CB Texas (Senior Bowl)
Roger McCreary - CB Auburn
Trent McDuffie - CB - Washington
Kaiir Elam - CB Florida
Kyler Gordon - CB Washington
Andrew Booth - CB Clemson

Roger McCreary - CB Auburn

Martin Emerson CB

 

Jaquan Brisker - S - PSU

Kyle Hamilton- S

Lewis Cines-S

Nick Cross-  S

 

Matt Araiza -  P San Diego State
 

Edited April 23, 2022 by Pete

[YoloinOhio]

Is there a link that you are on referencing this from? They met with 45 at the combine alone but the list isn’t public and needs to be gathered by asking the players. A few more they met with off the top of my head are Matt araiza, Trent mcduffie, Chris Olave, Roger McCreary

 

top 30 visits are most meaningful. I assume those are back in the facility again after being virtual last 2 years?

Edited March 9, 2022 by YoloinOhio

[GunnerBill]

9 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Is there a link that you are on referencing this from? They met with 45 at the combine alone but the list isn’t public and needs to be gathered by asking the players.

 

top 30 visits are most meaningful. I assume those are back in the facility again after being virtual last 2 years?

 

Wasn't the stat something like all but one of Beane's day 1 or 2 picks had been on facility visits prior to covid happening?

[YoloinOhio]

2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Wasn't the stat something like all but one of Beane's day 1 or 2 picks had been on facility visits prior to covid happening?

Even if you look at the guys they drafted in 2017 right before Beane came to Buffalo, most of them were visits to Carolina which was interesting and showed that McDermott ran that draft vs Whaley. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

7 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

...most of them were visits to Carolina which was interesting and showed that McDermott ran that draft vs Whaley. 

In Whaley's defense, he kept waiting for Buddy to wake up and return Whaley's calls.

[Magox]

A lot of WR’s on those lists.

 

Me likey!!

[GunnerBill]

1 hour ago, Pete said:

 

Cade Otton, Tight End, Washington (COM)

 

 

Interesting name. Another that projects well to a #2 Tight End type role. I like him as an inline blocker and he feels like untapped potential as a receiver.

[RyanC883]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Wasn't the stat something like all but one of Beane's day 1 or 2 picks had been on facility visits prior to covid happening?

 

that’s a crazy stat!   who were the one or two?

[GunnerBill]

6 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

that’s a crazy stat!   who were the one or two?

 

I can't recall off the top of my head but this regime has been pretty consistent in drafting guys they have brought in. I don't know this for a fact but I speculate that the Bills are one of the teams that have a relatively small draft board. New England are famous for having a small board, sometimes they only have 90-100 players on it, but I suspect the Bills are at the smaller end too. 

[OldTimer1960]

19 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

I can't recall off the top of my head but this regime has been pretty consistent in drafting guys they have brought in. I don't know this for a fact but I speculate that the Bills are one of the teams that have a relatively small draft board. New England are famous for having a small board, sometimes they only have 90-100 players on it, but I suspect the Bills are at the smaller end too. 

Do you mean that they think there are only 100 or so draft-worthy prospects or do they exclude many early prospects because they are going to be gone early, aren’t scheme fits, don’t play priority position for current draft,…?

 

I can’t imagine them basically only having a top 100 board and flying blind after 3rd round.

 

 

[DCbillsfan]

3 minutes ago, OldTimer1960 said:

Do you mean that they think there are only 100 or so draft-worthy prospects or do they exclude many early prospects because they are going to be gone early, aren’t scheme fits, don’t play priority position for current draft,…?

 

I can’t imagine them basically only having a top 100 board and flying blind after 3rd round.

 

 

It's not a top 100 board.  It's a list comprised of players projected in all the rounds but limited to 100 players that they deem as draftable.

[GunnerBill]

4 minutes ago, OldTimer1960 said:

Do you mean that they think there are only 100 or so draft-worthy prospects or do they exclude many early prospects because they are going to be gone early, aren’t scheme fits, don’t play priority position for current draft,…?

 

I can’t imagine them basically only having a top 100 board and flying blind after 3rd round.

 

 

 

It means by the time they have disqualified people on grounds of:

 

- not being good enough;

- health / injury red flags;

- not being a scheme fit;

- not being a character fit;

- not feeling that they have enough tape / information (which can still happen with some smaller school guys although the Bills are one of the more thorough teams);

 

They are left with about 100 players that they would draft. It isn't that they only bother putting guys that they think are day 1 or 2 picks on the board. They will have guys right down the round spectrum there. But people presume when teams look at their own boards they are looking at Daniel Jeremiah's best available list with some 300 odd players on it and in reality that is very rare. 

[Gugny]

47 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

It means by the time they have disqualified people on grounds of:

 

- not being good enough;

- health / injury red flags;

- not being a scheme fit;

- not being a character fit;

- not feeling that they have enough tape / information (which can still happen with some smaller school guys although the Bills are one of the more thorough teams);

 

They are left with about 100 players that they would draft. It isn't that they only bother putting guys that they think are day 1 or 2 picks on the board. They will have guys right down the round spectrum there. But people presume when teams look at their own boards they are looking at Daniel Jeremiah's best available list with some 300 odd players on it and in reality that is very rare. 

 

One would think that a database of all available players could be created and that a team could "eliminate" players they know they don't want, then go through a series of "if/then" scenarios.  So if Bob Jones is who they want in the first round, and he gets snagged by another team before dropping to them, then the database would automatically tell them who their pick will be based on all of the previous picks and the "if/then" data they input previously.

 

Maybe teams already do this; I don't know.  But it seems like the logical way to go about it.

[MrEpsYtown]

In addition to those guys, online I have seen that they had combine meetings with: 

 

Roger McCreary - CB Auburn

Trent McDuffie - CB - Washington

Matt Araiza -  P San Diego State

Phidarian Mathis - DT Bama

Kaiir Elam - CB Florida

Max Borghi - RB Washington State

Jaquan Brisker - S - PSU

Brandon Smith - LB PSU

Cam Jurgens - C/G Nebraska

Logan Bruss - C/G Wisconsin

Chris Olave - WR OSU

John Metchie III - WR Bama

Kyler Gordon - CB Washington

Andrew Booth - CB Clemson

Zion Johnson - C/G Boston College

Arnold Ebiketie - DE PSU

Rachaad White - RB Arizona State

Lecitus Smith - G Virginia Tech

Dohnovan West - C/G Arizona State

Darrian Beavers - LB Cincinnati

Kenyon Green - C/G Texas A&M

 

 

Edited March 9, 2022 by MrEpsYtown

[TheBeaneBandit]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Interesting name. Another that projects well to a #2 Tight End type role. I like him as an inline blocker and he feels like untapped potential as a receiver.

Plus I feel there's a cotton nickname in there somewhere...😄

[Rico]

3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

Is there a link that you are on referencing this from? They met with 45 at the combine alone but the list isn’t public and needs to be gathered by asking the players. A few more they met with off the top of my head are Matt araiza, Trent mcduffie, Chris Olave, Roger McCreary

 

top 30 visits are most meaningful. I assume those are back in the facility again after being virtual last 2 years?

Thanks, I would be very disappointed if they didn’t at least meet with Olave.

[No_Matter_What]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

 

It means by the time they have disqualified people on grounds of:

 

- not being good enough;

- health / injury red flags;

- not being a scheme fit;

- not being a character fit;

- not feeling that they have enough tape / information (which can still happen with some smaller school guys although the Bills are one of the more thorough teams);

 

They are left with about 100 players that they would draft. It isn't that they only bother putting guys that they think are day 1 or 2 picks on the board. They will have guys right down the round spectrum there. But people presume when teams look at their own boards they are looking at Daniel Jeremiah's best available list with some 300 odd players on it and in reality that is very rare. 

 

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[MrEpsYtown]

3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

Is there a link that you are on referencing this from? They met with 45 at the combine alone but the list isn’t public and needs to be gathered by asking the players. A few more they met with off the top of my head are Matt araiza, Trent mcduffie, Chris Olave, Roger McCreary

 

top 30 visits are most meaningful. I assume those are back in the facility again after being virtual last 2 years?

That list comes from Walter football. 

 

Then I looked around at interviews and gathered some info online and found some other names. 

 

So full compiled list I can find: 

 

Treylon Burks - WR Arkansas

Jordan Davis - DT Georgia 

Cade Otton - TE Washington 

Josh Thompson - CB Texas (Senior Bowl)

Jameson Williams- WR Bama

Malik Willis - QB Liberty

Garrett Wilson - WR OSU

Perrion Winfrey - DT Oklahoma

Roger McCreary - CB Auburn

Trent McDuffie - CB - Washington

Matt Araiza -  P San Diego State

Phidarian Mathis - DT Bama

Kaiir Elam - CB Florida

Max Borghi - RB Washington State

Jaquan Brisker - S - PSU

Brandon Smith - LB PSU

Cam Jurgens - C/G Nebraska

Logan Bruss - C/G Wisconsin

Chris Olave - WR OSU

John Metchie III - WR Bama

Kyler Gordon - CB Washington

Andrew Booth - CB Clemson

Zion Johnson - C/G Boston College

Arnold Ebiketie - DE PSU

Rachaad White - RB Arizona State

Lecitus Smith - G Virginia Tech

Dohnovan West - C/G Arizona State

Darrian Beavers - LB Cincinnati

Kenyon Green - C/G Texas A&M

 

[Brand J]

Those wanting DE Jermaine Johnson or one of the marquee RBs would be disappointed by that list. Great to see so many interior OL players though.

Edited March 9, 2022 by JayBaller10

[MrEpsYtown]

23 minutes ago, JayBaller10 said:

Those wanting DE Jermaine Johnson or one of the marquee RBs would be disappointed by that list. Great to see so many interior OL players though.

 

I am sure there is more out there,but that's what I was able to find. 

 

Max Borghi - RB Washington State is an interesting guy. He's similar to a Jerick McKinnon in that he can really catch the football. He would be an interesting complimentary back to work with Singletary. 

 

I like some of those interior guys. Jurgens and Bruss are some nasty guys who play with an edge and Zion Johnson is a high RAS guy.