GunnerBill

I didn't know that story, but I respect McDaniel a ton for that. Kinda had a similar journey in soccer in that I played a pretty low level of semi-pro soccer when I was still living up north and when I moved to London and went to summer try outs for my local semi-pro club which was a couple of levels higher up the pyramid I made it from like 100 guys through 3 rounds of cuts and when they did the cut to the final 20 man squad to start the season the manager pulled me and said "to be honest ability wise I'd have cut you two rounds ago but you caught my eye for how you communicate and the quality of the information you pass on to other players, so I am going to sign you but I don't really want you to play, I want you to coach and be there as a break glass in case of emergency player." I was 24 and at the time the youngest coach in the top 4 tiers of the non-league game.

He didn't run because he would be bottom 10 percentile in terms of speed for outside corners in the NFL. I even wonder if a team drafts him then moves him to safety.

Yea, the Bills offense was moving the ball with Trubisky (he isn't great but he can play at a serviceable level with starters around him) so McDermott had to take action. Mike White was laughably bad.

This is what it comes down to. When you are about to enter a two-year tear down you can afford to be a bit more patient on it because you are guaranteed other shots at QBs. If they like Shedeur they should take him. If they don't think shouldn't. I think Cleveland and the Giants should take a Quarterback almost whatever happens. I don't think they WILL but they should.

Have we? Hadn't seen that. I like Simmons as a late day 3 1T option. I think he is exactly the sort of guy you take rounds 6 or 7 and he spends his rookie contract as at least your backup 1T. Which avoids Beano chucking $4m at it every March.

And has been on a 30 visit. The Bills are one of the teams for whom that really matters with the first rounder. 2017 - White visited 2018 - Allen and Edmunds visited 2019 - Oliver visited 2020 - no pick (Diggs trade) 2021 - Rousseau (had a zoom, no visits, covid) 2022 - Elam visited 2023 - the one anomaly - Kincaid did not visit 2024 - Coleman visited

Yea he is one of my guys too. I have a 4th on him. Reminds me a bit of Jordan Magee out of Temple who I really liked last year that same sort of athletic, sub-package linebacker profile that these days can be on the field a ton. Magee went in the 5th to the Commanders and mainly played STs as a rook and it wouldn't surprise me if that is Buchanan's route too. But if the Bills want someone in the system who might be a long term Milano replacement...... he would be a decent choice.

Oladejo? Late 3rd I think. Not in front of my board rn but definitely within top 100, think he is 80 something.

They definitely should not do it. I agree he will be a better pro. Same as Cook is.

I genuinely think any corner left on the board here is a bit of a reach. There are 9 guys that legit belong in the first two rounds then I have a gap until like mid 3rd in my corner rankings. If the Bills are in this spot and desperate to pick a corner they should trade back first and do it to at least maximise their value.

For sure, he isn't the best tackler in the run game. But the Bills need to defend the pass better. Grant doesn't help us there. Hariston does.

Or right in the mix with AJ and Groot. Hence meh.

Matt Millen announcing to his entire staff the day before the 2005 draft that "if DeMarcus Ware is there we are sprinting in the card no matter what!" Only to then allow a national scout to talk him into wide receiver Mike Williams while he was on the clock..... meaning he had taken a receiver in the top 10 three years running. Fire Millen indeed.

Meh. I don't think he is going to be a difference maker in the NFL. He will be another 6-8 sack guy.

It is too early IMO. I also think he is a nickel at the next level. I like him. Like him a lot. Don't like the idea of him in round 2 and make him your starting outside corner.

I'd do it. If this was the board I'd do it. The best two players on the board by far (if we are discounting Bond for off-field reasons) are a DT - we have already picked two and an OT - we have two established starters on the team and other needs. Sliding back 15 gets you into the spot where I do think a Nohl Williams or a Zy Alexander make sense or you could go for one of the speedier receivers - Royals, Felton, etc.... If you are picking here and you are discounting DT and OT it is Tre Harris or Jack Sawyer for me and while both those guys are at positions of need they are not the ideal profiles the Bills need at those spots.

He'd be a reach here and a considerable one IMO. I have a 4th round grade on him.

He is a better outside receiver than Coleman. He is just better at varying his play speed and the tempo of his routes and he understands leverage and uses it against coverage, rather than playing to the coverage the way Keon does. He is also better at the top of the route. I don't think he has Keon's level of ability after the catch but I think he will win outside more often. I'm not pounding the table for Harris, and I didn't vote for him, but I wouldn't hate him here based on the value compared to what else is on the board. I agree that he doesn't bring the speed element the Bills are lacking. Likewise I am not pounding the table for Royals either but I'd be fine with him as well based on value. What I hate the idea of doing here is reaching for someone based on perceived need. Harris is legit a top five BPA at this stage of the draft.

Yea RTG is passer rating when targeted I believe and YSNP is Yards per snap (so total yards given up divided by snaps played in man or zone) and FI% is forced incompletion percentage.

Yea - hiring Jauron you can put legitimately on Marv. And indirectly, I'm sure Jauron had an impact on their draft... so that is true but that was the extent of Marv's influence on the draft. Modrak was the GM. Brandon was the Assistant GM. Marv was just the palatable front man. He wasn't even in the draft room when the Bills traded up for McCargo. That's how much actual influence he had.

He was never actually the GM in anything but name though, was he? Tom Modrak was running those drafts from home with Russ Brandon as his lacky on the end of a telephone. Marv, bless him, slept through scouting meetings and was not even present in the draft room for multiple picks in his first draft.

Stefon Diggs.

Interesting. Nohl Williams's zone numbers are better and his man numbers worse than I'd have guessed off the games of his I've watched. He is my CB10 after the normal nine names have gone. Might bring him into my thinking at the bottom of the 2nd. I'd consider Harmon. He'd be tough for me to pass on. I'd take Amos or Hariston over Grant.

I'd be genuinely really surprised if any corners beyond the names regularly mentioned here: Hunter, Barron, Johnson, Revel, Amos, Hariston, Morrison, Thomas, Porter actually go in the first two rounds. The one I give a squeak to is Nohl Williams. I know, 32 different teams, 32 different boards, but there genuinely is a very clear drop off to my eye and the draft has so much strength at defensive line I think teams will be reluctant to reach down the board for cornerbacks.

On Frazier specifically, man the transitions concern me. I get major Kaiir Elam vibes. The ball production you like and he is athletic.... but I just see those long limbs all over the place in transition and I think that will hurt him at the next level.