Big Turk

This is crazy! Wonder what the narrative would look like if even half of them haven't.

Ever watch SwordFish? What does Travolta's character say about how Houdini was able to captivate audiences without them being able to ever detect anything as to how he was able to do his tricks? Misdirection.

I'm expecting big things out of Shakir also...and the advanced metrics strongly back that up.

Believing anything anyone says at this time of year is a fools errand. If they are talking about the draft at this time of the year, they are lying or at best telling half-truths or statements with a glimmer of truth. Count on it.

Yup, I talked about this exact same thing a few months ago...how fewer and fewer underclassmen are declaring for the drafts now due to this.

Elam isn't a failed first rounder. Most of the time when he plays, he plays pretty well. He has had some key INT's in big games for us at big times and in the endzone. Pittsburgh in the playoffs last year for example. For some reason, McD is unwilling to let him play and learn. Injuries have played a part in it, but I don't really understand how almost everytime he is pressed into duty(other than the Jags game where his ankle was basically unable to function properly) and he makes plays that you keep taking him out. He hasn't been given the opportunity really, and maybe he hasn't earned it in training camp or practice or preseason or whatever. But Goddamn, how many big plays does he have to make IN REAL LIVE GAMES THAT MATTER before you give him a chance? Does McD have some secret agenda where he simply dislikes him to the point he will only play him if forced to?

That's basically the Diggs contract with maybe a few million more dollars guaranteed. So, no?

MLB was a question too last year, but it was answered pretty emphatically 2 games into the season. I wouldn't worry too much.

I guess being named Josh Allen in the NFL really pays... combined contracts worth nearly $400 million and $226 million guaranteed.

Ask Vander Esch from the Cowboys who just retired after injured much of his time in the NFL about neck injuries and how they can derail your career...

Except he has blazing 4.3 speed instead of 4.55 speed.

Speculation is BTJ will be going in the teens and the Bills will need to move up to get him.

wow...guess he will be judged by the ultimate judger now. And I doubt the "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" line with the glove will help him this time.

That's true...the team always seemed to play better when it's backs were against the wall and everyone was doubting them and saying they were done. Anytime they were anointed as front-runners it seemed to get to their heads and they played with too much reckless abandon rather than focus.

If the Bills would have taken any of those 3 outside Marshall and Treadwell, they would have been absolutely loaded at WR

Anyone putting more stock in the combine versus what they watched on tape in actual games should not be drafting players.

Now do 3rd, 4th and 5th rounds Calvin Ridley is not a ++ player? The man put up almost 1400 yards one season? 1000 yards last year...he is a very good receiver

I'd love Franklin here...

The offense was mostly fine after Brady took over and Diggs was pretty much an afterthought in most of those games.

This is true and while Diggs may have been declining over the course of the last half of the season, he STILL was drawing the #1 CB most times to line up against him...now the other WR's will have to deal with that instead of having a buffer.

Bills better be all over those red helmets again...like they had when they were going to super bowls.

OP shouldn't pose subjective questions with non subjective titles then. The title of the thread and what he is actually asking don't align at all.

Diggs and it isn't close. The question wasn't "who is your most sentimental #14" or "who is your favorite #14". It was who is the best. Diggs far and away is the best and these other replies answering a question that wasn't asked probably need to learn how to separate logic and emotion a little better. This wasn't an interpretation question, it was a logic question not open for interpretation....by any measure Diggs was the best #14 ever on the Bills.

The higher up they go to get a player the bigger the rookie cap hit will be tho, something to keep in mind too...

Yeah, not really. The advanced metrics are extremely in favor of Shakir actually being really good. They never were for Robert Foster. Shakir was getting targets as a #3 or #4 option and still made things happen. Foster was a defacto #1 for us and got targets because there was literally nobody else to get them. It was basically him and McKenzie that year for the last half of the season. Robert Foster was never #1 in open rate against man coverage like Shakir was his rookie season and was never #1 in yards/target for any WR with 45 or more targets like Shakir was last year. I am calling it right now Shakir will be in the 65-70 catch range and 900-1100 range for yards this season. Call it a breakout, call it a natural progression, call it whatever you want. What I see is a guy who is slippery smooth, runs good routes, gets open against a variety of coverages, catches almost everything thrown to him and then makes something happen after the catch with the ball in his hands and has running back moves and can bounce off tacklers to get extra yards. Yeah he is a 5th round pick, but who cares, so was Diggs. This is a good point and a large part of how successful a player is or isn't comes down to how they are used, the scheme they play in and the opportunities they are given. I mean would Puka Nacua have gotten such a prominent role in the offense if Cooper Kupp hadn't been injured? Probably not. Also, a WR drafted in the 3rd round on a bad team might get a lot more snaps as a top 3 WR than a 1st round pick drafted on a good team. Or at least a similar number of reps, and might be targeted more often than a rookie on a good team simply due to too many players and not enough balls to go around where the same player on a bad team doesn't have this issue.