Logic

Definitely. Stevenson makes me think of Antonio Brown. Brown is 5'10", 185 lbs, and was drafted in the sixth round due to electrifying speed and kick return ability. Stevenson is 5'10", 182 lbs, and was drafted in the sixth round due to electrifying speed and kick return ability. I'm not saying Stevenson is definitely going to become an Antonio Brown level receiver. Who knows? He may never be more than a return guy. But he has an elite trait that you can't teach -- his speed -- and seems to have the want-to and the mindset to be great. Having two mentors/friends on the squad and a host of vets to learn from should only help his cause.

To be fair, Vander Esch was an injury risk coming out of college. After a good (and healthy) rookie season, he has been limited to 19 games in the last two seasons, and has been diagnosed with spinal stenosis, which they think might cause long term, recurrent neck and back trouble. I think the drafting of Micah Parsons and Jabril Cox effectively closed the book on the Vander Esch era in Dallas. Anyway, back to Edmunds. I'm sure others have already pointed this out, but: Four different players that the Bills drafted in the 2021 draft are already older than Tremaine Edmunds. Those who say he is what he is and can't improve ought to explain why 20, 21, and 22 year old players are still improving through college, but there's no chance that Edmunds can get any better.

I think you nailed it, except for one thing: I don't see a fifth rounder like Tommy Doyle not making the roster. I think he makes the roster over either Lamp or Anderson. Beane mentioned maybe cross training him at tackle and guard. I think they'd like their chances of getting Anderson through to the practice squad better than a 5th round pick with upside like Doyle. Other than that, it looks exactly right to me.

Stevenson couldn't be coming into a better situation. Tre White is his mentor and Ed Oliver was his college roommate, so he'll already have some friendly faces showing him the ropes. Our kick return job is wide open, so he can hopefully earn a roster spot and be active on game days that way. Lastly, he couldn't have a better host of guys to learn route running and the nuances of the position from than Diggs, Beasley, and Sanders, not to mention coach Chad Hall. Oh, and the Bills' elite training facilities will help him add weight and strength. Short term, he can hopefully return kicks and take the occasional jet sweep play. Long term, I'm not sleeping on his chances to be a weapon for this offense.

I liked the Rousseau and Basham picks this year, and I liked the Epenesa pick last year. My only concern is that all three guys seem to be the same type of player: base ends who will set the edge well on 1st and 2nd down, but who then would be best suited to reduce down to the interior on 3rd down. That versatility is great, of course, but I fear that starting in 2022 (assuming Hughes and Addison are gone), we still won't have that pure arc-running, edge-bending pass rush threat on the edge. It's great that all three of our youngsters at edge can rush from the interior effectively, but we still don't seem to have that twitchy right end who can bend the arc. Any of the three could prove me wrong, of course. Maybe my concern will prove to be unfounded, but I'm a little hesitant to think, even with three high picks invested at EDGE, that the Bills have definitely solved their problems there going forward.

Not sure if anyone else has posted this already, but if not.... I highly recommend listening to Rousseau's interview with Daniel Jeremiah from back during the 2020 college season. He gets complimented by Bucky Brooks for the degree to which he is a student of the game, particularly at his young age. Good interview. Rousseau clearly seems to have the drive to get better....the "growth mindset", if you will. https://podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/593-gregory-rousseau-on-his-decision-to-opt-out-art/id915544088?i=1000493270554&l=en

Bunch of doom and gloom for nothing. Two starting guards will return healthy to the lineup, an actual training camp will happen, Daboll will commit to fixing the running game, and the run game will be just fine. Go back and watch the Chargers and Patriots game. Moss and Singletary are good players. I’m willing to bet that come the end of this season, not a soul will be talking about run game troubles. All the fervor to replace Moss and Singletary (two talented third round picks who’ve played three seasons between them) will seem like a distant memory.

Put another way: Brennan wishes Beane would have reached for players at positions of need instead of taking players that were higher on his board.

That.......doesn't seem right.

I agree here. Clearly, they feel Star and Harry can do the job this year. I'm not sure I agree. Star's been away from football for a year and is getting older, and Harry didn't show enough last year to make me feel confident that he'll be appreciably better this year. If there's only one thing I would have added to this draft, it would have been a legit 1T prospect.

Here's Logic's (not too serious) 2021 Draft Review: Beane kicked off his "You must be this tall to ride this ride" draft theme by taking a stretched out Gumby doll space alien that only played one quarter of one game of college football. People were mixed on the kid's potential, until they heard that his nickname was Groot, then everybody was instantly all-in. Next up, everyone was excited because a bunch of good corners, receivers, and defensive tackles had fallen to the Bills in the second round, and much to everyone's delight, Beane drafted a......defensive end?! Wait, ANOTHER defensive end? What the WHAT?! This can't be right. We just drafted one, and this seems like something from the department of redundancy department, and...wait, he goes by the name "Boogie"? Carry on. After that, everyone came down off the ledge because hey, a bunch of players at need positions and fast skill guys were still around in the third, so maybe now this draft would come back down to earth and start fulfilling everyone's expectations for immediate improvement. Let's see....Beane took a....AN OFFENSIVE TACKLE?!?! No no no, this can't be. This is highly illogical. This doesn't make any sense. "Psssst. He's 6'9" and he literally broke the RAS scoring system and he just jumped through a table". Oh, well in that case, how many of his jerseys should I order? Long wait through round four, but here comes round five, and we have two picks, so things are going to be exciting. After exclusively drafting linemen, maybe NOW Beane will be adding some speedy speedsters. So long as he doesn't take a.....HE TOOK ANOTHER OFFENSIVE TACKLE? THIS CAN'T BE! I need a drink. At least we have another fifth round pi....what's that? We don't, all of a sudden? Make that drink a double. Okay okay. It's been a long few days, but we've got three sixes. Mark of the beast. What d'ya got, Beane-o? Fast receiver? YESSS! In the long, storied tradition of over-hyping late round receivers, I'm already convinced this guy will be a Hall of Famer. Plus he's gonna propel us past the Chiefs. Speed, speed, speed, I love speed. What next? A safety I've never heard of? That's fine. We always take late round safeties I've never heard of. Meeks, Neal, Johnson, this guy. Will he technically play football for the Bills? Yes. Will you even know if he does or doesn't? Probably not. Last pick in the sixth, make it count. THE GUY'S NAME IS WILDGOOSE?! I can already hear Berman now: "There they go running after the speedy corner, a Wildgoose chase. WHOOOOP!!!". "Beane, listen. That last guy's name was pretty crazy. Got anything a little more...I dunno....vanilla...that I can write on the next card?"...."How about Jack Anderson?"...."Perfect". And that was it in a nutshell. We got much taller. We took a Boogie and a Groot and a lunatic cattle farmer and a fast guy and a Wildgoose. On a scale of "crapshoot" to "bunch of lottery tickets", I give it a "who the hell knows?"

Sounds like Stevenson has a real chance to be our kick returner.

Damn, I was hoping we'd draft someone 6'8" or taller.

@Giuseppe Tognarelli !!!!! This pick was for you. It's official. We're beating the Chiefs.

I have a hard and fast draft rule from which I never deviate: Never complain about drafting big uglies. The game of football always has been and always will be won and lost in the trenches. And if the trench players brought in are giant alien oak tree mutant giant dinosaur monsters? So much the better.

They got Jamien Sherwood AND Hamsah Nasirildeen, AND all the Michael Carters that ever lived. Sons a *****.

The Jets keep picking good players and I ***** hate it.

I hear ya. But Lee Smith had to know the assignments of the tight end for every offensive play in the playbook. He went to tight end meetings and practiced with the tight ends.

I'm just saying there's a reason that NFL teams don't frequently deploy six offensive linemen between the 20s. The Bills aren't the first team to have good tackle depth, or a backup tackle that can catch passes. Also, when Lee Smith was on the field between the 20s, teams basically knew the Bills were running the ball. That's one of the reasons I think they traded him away and brought in Jacob Hollister instead. They want their tight end deployment to not telegraph their intentions to the degree that it did with Smith on the field. If Lee Smith telegraphed run, a sixth offensive lineman damned sure does the same. Finally, I think there's more to playing the tight end position than "hey, kid, go out there and block on this play". There's a whole different regimen of assignments and responsibilities and checks the player would need to know. It's not Madden, where you can just throw him in and say YOLO. Cross training at two positions is a tough ask for a raw rookie. That's all I'm saying.

I think all are in agreement that this is a fine plan. "Lee Smith replacement" sounds like the OP wants him to be a tight end. That's where my hesitation comes in. Goal line packages and occasional tackle eligible plays? Absolutely. Converting him to tight end? Not so much.

But the late 5th round pick at 171? Now HE was a lock to make the roster!

Right, but....like I said....those reps should come at the tackle position. Asking a raw rookie to learn two positions is just not realistic.

If he's active on game days in 2021, you may see him come in for the goal line jumbo packages and tackle eligible plays. It's very possible that he catches a TD pass in 2021. That said, he's ALREADY a bit of a project at tackle, and that's where they want him to play long term. Asking him to ALSO learn the plays and responsibilities of a tight end is putting far too much on his plate, in my opinion.

Has anyone checked on @Giuseppe Tognarelli? I don't think Doyle is very fast.

We now officially have the best pickup basketball team in the NFL. Power forwards for days.