Archives for April 2016

'These are the positions that I believe the Bills are interested in going after in the first round, along with 16 players that I think are in consideration for the team’s top pick.'

'Then there's a personnel director telling The Journal Sentinel "The guy has disaster written all over him" … another saying "he’d be a guy you give a big contract to and he’d be happy" … and a scout adding "He doesn’t just think football, football, football 24/7."'

'Scouts dub this one of the best defensive line draft classes in history. It could prove foolish to take zero swings at the plate. Buffalo released the lethargic, overpaid Mario Williams and are currently very thin up front. A large Bills contingent was on hand to see Reed light up position drills at Alabama’s pro day. When Reed needed to nix his flight to Buffalo due to the birth of his second child, the Bills took matters into their own hands.'

'"Some in the NFL" might not be anyone in Buffalo, but the note is interesting. Hackenberg would be a reach at No. 19, but he seems to have done some rehabilitation of his draft stock in the last few months. After a standout freshman season at Penn State, Hackenberg floundered the last two seasons after Bill O'Brien left and was replaced by James Franklin.'

'The Chiefs have Jeremy Maclin in place as the No. 1 wide receiver, but Williams should compete with Albert Wilson, Rod Streater and Chris Conley for targets opposite Maclin.'

'Unless Hackenberg’s draft stock is suddenly skyrocketing in war rooms around the league, he should be able to be grabbed by the Bills at least at pick-49 when they select in the second round, and possibly even a round after that.'

'"Maybe I should have got hit up side the head earlier in the game… I probably would have played better cause I think I threw two touchdowns when I had a concussion…I had no clue where I was"'

'Just about everyone that cares about the Buffalo Bills has an opinion on what the club should do with their first-round pick and on day two of the draft for that matter. Early round picks typically are, or become a team’s starters and core of the roster. Here is a collection of opinions from some of the noteworthy NFL draft analysts on the direction the Bills should take early in this week’s draft.'

'"When I started playing football as a little kid, the last thing on my mind was, ‘Will I be able to walk when I’m 50?' " he said, according to the newspaper. "Will I be able to keep a train of thought when I’m 45? When I’m 50, will I suffer from uncontrollable mood swings? And even worse, will someday I be so depressed that I would take my own life?"'

'A case can be made for the Buffalo Bills taking a wide receiver in the first round of the NFL Draft, but I won't make it.'

'Thomas said the doctor told him after an MRI that the frontal lobe of his brain was "similar to someone who has fallen off the top of a house, on to the front of his head, or going through a windshield of a car several times. He said decent … for an NFL football player who had just played in the National Football League for 13 years. Not great, but decent." '

' "On so many days, I have to apologize to my family for them. I thank God that I have a family that understands the things that I've been through over my 13-year [professional] career, and even after my 14 or 15 years that I've been retired. They all understand that with my mood swings, sometimes I just can't help it."'

'The team had excellent attendance last week for the first round of workouts. Of the players who are medically cleared to workout, wide receiver Sammy Watkins was the most notable absence the first day when the media was able to watch for about twenty minutes. But he was back in town later in the week and working out with his teammates.'

'Here are a few names to keep in mind as legitimate possibilities, you know, just in case……'.

'“You hear a lot about building up the middle and that’s pretty much the way Carolina has done it with the strength of their team being those defensive tackles and their linebackers,” said NFL.com draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah. “They’ve got a premier corner in (Josh) Norman, but that team is really built up the middle.'