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Yeah I was listening to a podcast with him and he said he actually had Benford on his DPOY ballot last season (I think 5th place, but still). I think any reasonable person would consider Benford and Shakir to be home run picks given where we took them.

"Impact" may be strong, but I would say Zay Jones has landed on his feet pretty well post-Bills. Certainly better than I expected him to be.

I don't really think Washington will consider trading him, but can't hurt to feel it out. I would imagine Beane has probably made an initial call as most GMs would.

I saw some back and forth between him and Dunne but didn't follow it back to the beginning. Feels kinda odd though; isn't Brasky working for SI now? It's not like he's just a random Bills blog.

Kind of an odd career because considering his production and the fact that he was only a 4th round pick, I think it's pretty obvious that he would be considered a "hit" as a draft pick, or in the very least certainly not a miss. But he looked so promising so quickly that he feels like a disappointment. I tend to think with his value as a run blocker, the fact that he was generally considered a good leader (albeit had the weird ending with his mom or whoever that was in his family), and his ability to be a passable receiving threat, he can still play a role for a lot of teams if he's willing to play for cheap, but the days of picturing him as a good WR2 or great WR3 are definitely gone. He's more in the Mack Hollins type of space.

Yes, we obviously want our WRs to be able to separate and that was not exactly Keon's calling card in college and doesn't really project to be a calling card in the pros. But we've seen so many times over the years even guys like Diggs who are considered to be among the best separators in the league can struggle to separate in the playoffs against some of the more handsy DBs. You don't want these types of contested balls to be what the offense is built around, but if Keon becomes good at it, it makes for a very nice last resort kind of thing.

If he's willing to come back in a depth role, this is such an easy yes. He's a capable starter that will likely sign for the league minimum.

Not seeing anyone else reporting it yet but this guy generally isn't fake news.

He will definitely be undersized in some matchups. Hope is that his athleticism helps make up for it; he's generally been a good rim protector at least but his rebounding numbers are pretty poor.

Actual insider info: we're making a push for Emmanuel Stephen from Arizona to be our backup C. Pretty raw player but 7 foot with athleticism. We'll see if we get it done but it sounds like that's who we've set our sights on. William Kyle to be the starting center and this kid to be the backup.

Everything I've heard is that we just were not prepared for the NIL era at all and we are confident we know what we're doing now and at least for these next two years, should have plenty of money to go around. Carmelo is making sure the school is well-supported while Kiyan is here. Also, no insider info on this one, but just from what I've read about the guys that we've reached out to, my guess would be Jerry Deng is a name to keep an eye on. Grew up in Rochester before moving away and even when he transferred to Florida State, hes continued to bring up how much he loved and misses Rochester and he absolutely fits the mold that Autry is looking for. I just feel like this is a match that makes sense.

Some people that are in the know are saying Naithan George from GA Tech is our #1 target for PG and our assistant coaches just started following him on social media so we'll see what comes of that. Lot of teams interested in him.

His shooting numbers inside the arc, from 3 point land, and at the free throw line over the last few years are all elite. I'll take my chances on that every time even if the competition wasn't the best.

Unfortunately I don't have any other names that I feel strongly about. I had never gotten information from the guy that initially mentioned William Kyle, but that name was so out of left field that I felt like he couldn't be making it up. Nate Kingz and Dishon Jackson are the other two names he said to keep an eye on and then the buzz around Kingz came in shortly after that. Haven't heard anyone else corroborate Dishon but still keeping an eye on that one given the guy's track record out of nowhere lol. Desmond Claude was a name that someone else mentioned to me and they've been reliable in the past. I don't think Claude has entered the portal yet though.

Apparently some buzz that we're talking to Nate Kingz, sharpshooter from Oregon State and Dishon Jackson, big man from Iowa State.

Committed.

Apparently the guy that we're secretly targeting scores a bit more than Dedan, but yeah, I've seen some other fans floating Dedan's name around as a guy they'd like to add. I still don't know who it is, but my best guess is that it's one of the following (listed in my guess as to the order of likelihood): Desmond Claude, USC Xaivian Lee, Princeton Jaland Lowe, Pittsburgh TK Simpkins, Elon Ryan Conwell, Xavier Langston Reynolds, Northern Colorado I'm also fairly certain but don't know for sure that we're trying to get Quincy Ballard to come back home to be our starting C for next year.

Starting to hear buzz that William Kyle from UCLA is one of our transfer targets. My assumption is he'd be a depth PF/C type.

Haven't been posting here lately but the only one I was surprised by was Cuffe but I suspect he was told there wouldn't be a role for him next season. Supposedly we should be hearing leaks about who we're targeting for PG sometime this week. Sounds like we intend to spend a good amount of money on whoever it is.

I think this is all fair, though Worthy was still trending up over the 2nd half of the season (a couple invisible portions of games notwithstanding). Worthy was ultimately better than Coleman in year 1, though there was a handful of rookie WRs better than both of them this year, including one or two that were drafted after them). We'll see if that continues to be the case moving forwards. Coleman looked pretty promising earlier in the year before he got hurt; hopefully he'll continue to improve over the offseason and turn into a good starter for us. I certainly recognize some people's frustrations with him, especially over the 2nd half of the year when he was mostly invisible. I think it was a solid rookie season overall though, especially given how young and raw he is. It just so happens that this class was very, very good so merely being solid is still outside the top 5 rookie WRs.

Not sure to be honest, but the teams that have made it that far in the playoffs without really ever having a high scoring game the way the Chiefs did this season is pretty rare too.

Honestly could say this for pretty much all of our receiving options. Kincaid - revealed torn PCL and other knee injuries that he was playing through Coleman - missed several games and simply didn't look like the same player once he returned Cooper - rumors of him having to spend a ton of time with the training staff/weirdly underutilized (could maybe explain it as we went run-heavy and he's not as good a run blocker as Mack and Coleman but I'm skeptical that's the real reason) Samuel - turf toe or whatever it was that he had in the preseason is notoriously a nagging injury and particular important for his specific skill set and he was not moving like his usual self for like 80% of the season Entirely possible and maybe even likely that Kincaid and Coleman just aren't going to pan out the way we hoped, Cooper is over the hill, and Samuel just isn't as good as we thought he was, but there's at least a chance that all of them look much better next season. I assume Kincaid, Coleman, and Samuel will all be back and be given decent opportunity to prove themselves. Cooper probably walking but we'll see.

From a talent perspective, that would be a gigantic upgrade. He's obviously got a lot of issues that arguably make the talent not worth it though.

Saying he wasn't great is underselling it a bit. The only coach in NFL history with a worse winning percentage is Hue Jackson.