My Off-Season Primer: Position Group: WR

[NewEra]

I fully expect us to have to trade up if we want Shenault.  He’s such an easy target for us.  If someone wants him, they know they’ll have to get ahead of us.  
 

I also think he’s the perfect fit in philly, who just so happens to pick one spot ahead of us.  Ugh.  Viska just seems like such the perfect fit and too good to be true him falling into our laps.  Gonna have to be aggressive.  But how aggressive and why not Lamb or Juedy if we wanna trade up?  
 

Beane has an interesting decision to make.  
 

i haven’t watched a enough tape on these kids yet, just a few highlights of each.  The guys id be happy with so far:  lamb, juedy, Shenault, Jefferson.  I haven’t seen much on Pittman so I can’t say for sure.  I think Higgins is good but I don’t like him or Riggs as much as the top 4.  Tyler johnson looks legit too.give me one of those guys.  Or K’Lavon Chaisson.  Love that guy 

 

edit:  Pittman looks to be quite the specimen. 

Edited January 10, 2020 by NewEra

[MAJBobby]

4 minutes ago, NewEra said:

I fully expect us to have to trade up if we want Shenault.  He’s such an easy target for us.  If someone wants him, they know they’ll have to get ahead of us.  
 

I also think he’s the perfect fit in philly, who just so happens to pick one spot ahead of us.  Ugh.  Viska just seems like such the perfect fit and too good to be true him falling into our laps.  Gonna have to be aggressive.  But how aggressive and why not Lamb or Juedy if we wanna trade up?  
 

Beane has an interesting decision to make.  
 

i haven’t watched a enough tape on these kids yet, just a few highlights of each.  The guys id be happy with so far:  lamb, juedy, Shenault, Jefferson.  I haven’t seen much on Pittman so I can’t say for sure.  I think Higgins is good but I don’t like him or Riggs as much as the top 4.  Tyler johnson looks legit too.give me one of those guys.  Or K’Lavon Chaisson.  Love that guy 

I can say I have run easily over 100 mocks on the various Mock simulators. Anytime Shenault was not available for our pick the two situations you described happened. 
 

somone jumped us to late teens

or Philly took him right before us. 

[Don Otreply]

Pretty much agree with what you layed out, we need another wide out, a  #1 to be on the field pretty much every play with Brown and Beasley. We have to be able to stretch the defense across the field deep, we can’t do that in a serious way at present, from what I’ve read Beane has the situation in his sights, I’m confident this issue will be taken care of.

 

Go Bills!!!

[3rdand12]

2 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

no Emanuel Sanders is a significant upgrade over smoke 

and would be a fine pairing.

 The possibility or Perriman gets me rather excited.
should be fun
No frag from me about Brown. he needs complimentary players and Allen needs to show them some offseason love.
lets do this

 

Very nice work Bobby 

TY : )

[NewEra]

43 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:

I can say I have run easily over 100 mocks on the various Mock simulators. Anytime Shenault was not available for our pick the two situations you described happened. 
 

somone jumped us to late teens

or Philly took him right before us. 

Yup.  Get ready for it.  Kid is dynamite and not gonna last til the 20s imo.   
 

another great breakdown Maj. Your breakdowns are the only threads I can tolerate since the loss.

 

 

pain

Edited January 11, 2020 by NewEra

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

25 minutes ago, 3rdand12 said:

and would be a fine pairing.

 The possibility or Perriman gets me rather excited.
should be fun
No frag from me about Brown. he needs complimentary players and Allen needs to show them some offseason love.
lets do this

 

Very nice work Bobby 

TY : )

yep @MAJBobby is outclassing the sports media and might be building a body of work to join Beane staff.

 

love this stuff 

Edited January 11, 2020 by Over 29 years of fanhood

[MAJBobby]

2 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

yep @MAJBobby is outclassing the sports media and might be building a body of work to join Beane staff.

 

love this stuff 

appreciate it. I enjoy writing them and love reading the takes and conversation that follows and how others think. 

[Teddy KGB]

Emanuel Sanders or AJ green with Jefferson or Gandy Goldman could be fun 

 

Shenault or Higgins sounds like fun too 

 

Bring in the wideouts baby 

[Locomark]

When you look at the highlight reels on YouTube Shenault doesn’t look that big and sorry but that conference is weak. Scoring on Colorado State doesn’t exactly wow anyone. Higgins looks like James Lofton. Length and power. Perfect fit.  I would trade up for Higgins or Lamb if either get to the late teens. 

[Reed83HOF]

TL, DR - just sign Aj green...I mean the guy is a fantastic WR, was saving himself this year for FA. We can sign him to a 1 year Iamdoindthisjusttomesswithbobby

 

 

I like Perriman; he will be a good upgrade for us and I think the value will be there. Shenault is a great target and I would not be mad if we end up with him, but I am still saying Ruggs is the one

[Solomon Grundy]

17 minutes ago, Reed83HOF said:

TL, DR - just sign Aj green...I mean the guy is a fantastic WR, was saving himself this year for FA. We can sign him to a 1 year Iamdoindthisjusttomesswithbobby

 

 

I like Perriman; he will be a good upgrade for us and I think the value will be there. Shenault is a great target and I would not be mad if we end up with him, but I am still saying Ruggs is the one

Reed, his speed makes me want to pair him with Allen but I'm also having visions of John Ross

[LABILLBACKER]

How about not signing a tier 1 or tier 2 wr. Save the money and put it towards Ngakoue.  Draft Shenault at 22 and trade up in the 2nd for Jefferson.  Keep Duke and you've got 5 quality wrs in all shapes and sizes. Bound to find a #1 out of them. Draft Harris in the 3rd and your wr and rb room is set. 

[Reed83HOF]

3 hours ago, the skycap said:

Reed, his speed makes me want to pair him with Allen but I'm also having visions of John Ross

I'm nervous about missing and it is early yet and he is my early pick, without the combine and everything else - he just fits Bean's explosive athlete high ceiling rd 1 guy. JMO right now and I reserve the right to change my opinion as we approach the draft! LOL

[Gambit]

10 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

***Disclaimer*** I will not put all Names not on the Bills in this thread as it would get to long, I will keep it to a couple names in each tier (as I see them).  wit this I am wrapping up Offense and Special Teams and I will be on to the Defense starting next week.  Hope you enjoy the read.   ***NOTE*** Please do not turn this into an AJ Green Thread.

 

Past Writeups

Quarterback

Running Backs

Tight Ends

Offensive Line

Specialists

 

Currently on Roster: (Positional Spending 6 players 19.372M Cap (ranked 15th in league)

 

John Brown (UFA 2022) – Saves 6.518M against cap if Cut

 

Cole Beasley (UFA 2023) – Saves 2.568M against cap if Cut

 

Andre Roberts (UFA 2021) – Saves 1.5M against cap if Cut

 

Duke Williams (EFRA 2021) – Saves 585K against cap if Cut

 

Nick Easley (signed futures deal) -

 

Ray-Ray McCloud (signed futures deal)

 

 

 

Expiring Contracts:

 

Isaiah McKenzie (25 yrs old) (RFA) (600K AVV)

 

Robert Foster (26 yrs old) (EFRA) (525K AVV)

 

 

 

My Take:

 

 

 

First, I will address the expiring contracts. They really are not expiring contracts because McKenzie will get the Original Tender and be back, I don’t think Bills need to go anything higher than the original tender to keep him.  Foster will get his EFRA tender and be back. These are both players that need to be replaced but will be back just because of their contract status of both being very cheap to bring back.  I will never really understand what happened with Foster this year, compared to last year, it looked like he was poised to break out and be a NO1 WR, he never did, he has had motivation issues in the past did that catch back up with him?  But the reality is Duke Williams brings more to this offense and the numbers show that out as well.  

 

 

 

Isaiah McKenzie– 39 TGTs, 254 yards 1 TD, Catch Rate 69% and a DVOA -20.8%,

 

Robert Foster– 18 TGTs, 64 yards, 0 TDs, Catch Rate 17% 2 DPI Drawn 58 yards and a DVOA -42.0%

 

Duke Williams – 19 TGTs, 166 yards, 1 TD, Catch Rate 63% and a DVOA +2.8%

 

 

 

Now to the other WRs (not Roberts he is a Return Man not a WR).  Brown and Beasley.  Both have been great additions as well but looking at the dead money on these guys knowing they were JUST SIGNED I have to tip my hat to Beane.  And thing point I am going to bold here but you can look at all the UFAs Beane as signed in my other position groups they are all essentially on year deals with easy outs.  This is amazing cap management and solidifies to me that they can go get WHOEVER they want and not hurt their cap long term because he has shown a capability to craft cap friendly early outs.  So not back on task.

 

 

 

John Brown – 115 TGTs, 1060 yards, 6 TDs, Catch Rate 63%, 4 Drops (T19th in NFL) and a DVOA +11.1% (Ranks 22nd in NFL)

 

Cole Beasley – 105 TGTs, 778 yards, 6 TDs, Catch Rate 64%, 5 Drops (T10th in NFL), drew 1 DPI for 26 yards and a DVOA of +2.5 (Ranks 39th in NFL)

 

 

 

I probably am going to get fragged for this, but John Brown is an excellent WR2 not a WR1.  But that being said, I do like John Brown at a top end WR1B or WR2.  I think the worst play from him that I saw was the failed toe tap in the WC game, I know he logged 4 drops, but I don’t remember one really hurting a drive IE Big spot like I can with Knox’s and Beasley drops.  But either way another thing I do like that Brown gave is that 73.6% of his catches resulted in a first down. Which ranks him in 8th in the NFL with WRs and TEs with over 50 catches.  What I knew about him coming into Buffalo was he was blazing fast and that was confirmed, what I didn’t know and what he opened my eyes up to is how complete of a WR he is.  His route running is exceptional as well he always seemed to me that he was open, he easily would find holes in Zones, and in Man coverage he was always gaining separation out of his breaks as well.  This was a good signing from Buffalo and see why they also tried to sign him last year. 

 

 

 

Beasley also had a respectable 1st down conversion of 55.2% of his catches resulting in First down.  What I noticed about him, is he is better against man than he is against a zone.  I think the reason that is the way he runs routes and the crispness off then he gets immediate separation out of breaks.  Against a zone it is more of a feel to find the soft-spot or the seam in the zone.  My Cowboy friends told me that if he gets bracketed it can take him out of games, and I think that was seen as well.  Get another legit threat at WR or TE and it becomes much harder to do that too him.

 

 

 

The organizational depth in this group is atrocious.  There are really only 2 NFL caliber WRs on this roster and needs infusion of talent. So, I can see another offseason like last with going into the position multiple times, maybe a couple lower tier WRs via UFA and using a 1st or 2nd in the draft, or even a couple of draft picks.  How this position group gets addressed this offseason will be interesting.      

 

 

 

Possible Trade TGTs (hard to gauge until after SB):

 

OBJ – really is the only one I have heard so far as possibly being available this offseason.

 

 

 

UFAs Possible

 

Tier 1

 

AJ Green

 

Amari Cooper

 

Larry Fitzgerald

 

Emmanuel Sanders

 

Robbie Anderson (I wont downgrade him because of his off-field stuff)

 

 

 

Tier 2

 

Randall Cobb

 

Zach Pascal (EFRA) - meaning he 99.99999999999999999% is staying in Indy

Nelson Agholor

 

Breshad Perriman

 

Demarcus Robinson

 

Philip Dorsett

 

 

 

Draft (adding size here because I know people want to know that when talking WR)

 

Tier 1 (1st and 2nd round grades)

 

Outside:

Jerry Jeudy (6’1, 192) (Alabama)

 

CeeDee Lamb (6’2 189) (Oklahoma)

 

Tee Higgins (6’4 200) (Clemson)

 

Laviska Shenault Jr. (6’2 220) (Colorado)

 

Henry Ruggs III (6’0 183) (Alabama)

 

Tyler Johnson (6’2 200) (Minnesota)

 

Justin Jefferson (6’2 185) (LSU)

 

Michael Pittman Jr. (6’4 223) (USC)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

Jalen Reagor (5’11 195) (TCU)

 

KJ Hamler (5’9 174) (Penn ST)

 

Aaron Fuller (5’11 186) (Washington)

 

 

 

Tier 2 (3rd-5th round)

 

Outside:

 

Collin Johnson (6’6 220) (Texas)

 

Brandon Aiyuk (6’0 208) (Az ST)

 

Donovan People-Jones (6’2 208) (Michigan)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

None

 

 

 

Tier 3 (6th – Priority UFA)

 

Outside:

 

John Hightower (6’2 184) (Boise State)

 

KJ Hill (6’0 195) (Ohio St)

 

Antonio Gandy-Golden (6’4 216) (Liberty)

 

Chase Claypool (6’4 227) (ND)

 

Gabriel Davis (6’3 212) (UCF)

 

Denzel Mims (6’3 197) (Baylor)

 

Quinten Cephus (6’1 207) (Wisconsin)

 

Isaiah Hodgins (6’4 209) (Oregon State)

 

Bryan Edwards (6’3 215) (South Carolina)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

Devin Duvernay (5’11 186) (Texas)

 

James Poche (5’11 190) (SMU)

 

 

 

Final thinking in this Position group for me would be:

 

 

 

This position group needs work with right now only two legit NFL receivers on the roster.  Before I start with what I would do let me address what this would turn into.  AJ Green if I can get him to accept a Prove it Deal a 1-year 12M with little GTD I would.  Or I would also offer about what his value will be (with INJ and age) 2-year 19M with 9M GTD, 9.5M AVV.  But I don’t think he would accept that.  Now what I would like Bills to look at.

 

 

 

Go after a Tier 2 WR in UFA.  My Choice will be Breshard Perriman I don’t think Tampa is in a position to sign him.  And I think a Cole Beasley Contract is acceptable and will get it done 4 years 29M, 12 GTD with a 7.25M AVV and an easy out after the first year.  That will give you the same Deep speed as Foster and allows for the Rookie not to have to come right in and excel.  He really came on late in the year with Tampa.  That give me at last 3 real NFL WRs on the roster before the draft. 

 

 

 

In the draft I would take 2.  One early and one late.  My Early target right now is Laviska Shenault.  Reason why is he has the skill set right now we are filling with players.  Big and Powerful (Duke Williams). Plenty of Speed (will time in 4.4s or lower, Robert Foster) and can run jet sweeps, out of backfield, QB the WC similar to McKenzie).  He also has a good catch radius and can high point balls.

 

 

 

In Later round get be the Big TGT for competition with Duke Williams so like a Hodgins, Claypool, Mims.

 

 

 

This is the position group I would like addressed in the first round.  You Can see in round 3-5 the depth thins out in the outside WR group, so a lot of those Tier 3 guys are going to be over drafted.  Yes it is a deep draft like everyone is saying but that depth I fully anticipate will get gone fast, and if we wait until the second round (where we are picking we are going to miss out)

 

As long as we land Shenault, I'm going to be extremely pleased with our WRs. Though if we also land Perriman I would be so damn excited for our Offense. Especially if we can some how land Hooper for our TE too. I know that's clearly not likely that Buffalo can land all of them tho. Just imagine all the weapons plus Singletary for Josh. Maybe see if we can fix our RT by snatching up Conklin from TN and watch out ladies and gents cause Buffalo would have a top Offense again finally. One can dream I suppose.

[Buffalo Barbarian]

11 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

***Disclaimer*** I will not put all Names not on the Bills in this thread as it would get to long, I will keep it to a couple names in each tier (as I see them).  wit this I am wrapping up Offense and Special Teams and I will be on to the Defense starting next week.  Hope you enjoy the read.   ***NOTE*** Please do not turn this into an AJ Green Thread.

 

Past Writeups

Quarterback

Running Backs

Tight Ends

Offensive Line

Specialists

 

Currently on Roster: (Positional Spending 6 players 19.372M Cap (ranked 15th in league)

 

John Brown (UFA 2022) – Saves 6.518M against cap if Cut

 

Cole Beasley (UFA 2023) – Saves 2.568M against cap if Cut

 

Andre Roberts (UFA 2021) – Saves 1.5M against cap if Cut

 

Duke Williams (EFRA 2021) – Saves 585K against cap if Cut

 

Nick Easley (signed futures deal) -

 

Ray-Ray McCloud (signed futures deal)

 

 

 

Expiring Contracts:

 

Isaiah McKenzie (25 yrs old) (RFA) (600K AVV)

 

Robert Foster (26 yrs old) (EFRA) (525K AVV)

 

 

 

My Take:

 

 

 

First, I will address the expiring contracts. They really are not expiring contracts because McKenzie will get the Original Tender and be back, I don’t think Bills need to go anything higher than the original tender to keep him.  Foster will get his EFRA tender and be back. These are both players that need to be replaced but will be back just because of their contract status of both being very cheap to bring back.  I will never really understand what happened with Foster this year, compared to last year, it looked like he was poised to break out and be a NO1 WR, he never did, he has had motivation issues in the past did that catch back up with him?  But the reality is Duke Williams brings more to this offense and the numbers show that out as well.  

 

 

 

Isaiah McKenzie– 39 TGTs, 254 yards 1 TD, Catch Rate 69% and a DVOA -20.8%,

 

Robert Foster– 18 TGTs, 64 yards, 0 TDs, Catch Rate 17% 2 DPI Drawn 58 yards and a DVOA -42.0%

 

Duke Williams – 19 TGTs, 166 yards, 1 TD, Catch Rate 63% and a DVOA +2.8%

 

 

 

Now to the other WRs (not Roberts he is a Return Man not a WR).  Brown and Beasley.  Both have been great additions as well but looking at the dead money on these guys knowing they were JUST SIGNED I have to tip my hat to Beane.  And thing point I am going to bold here but you can look at all the UFAs Beane as signed in my other position groups they are all essentially on year deals with easy outs.  This is amazing cap management and solidifies to me that they can go get WHOEVER they want and not hurt their cap long term because he has shown a capability to craft cap friendly early outs.  So not back on task.

 

 

 

John Brown – 115 TGTs, 1060 yards, 6 TDs, Catch Rate 63%, 4 Drops (T19th in NFL) and a DVOA +11.1% (Ranks 22nd in NFL)

 

Cole Beasley – 105 TGTs, 778 yards, 6 TDs, Catch Rate 64%, 5 Drops (T10th in NFL), drew 1 DPI for 26 yards and a DVOA of +2.5 (Ranks 39th in NFL)

 

 

 

I probably am going to get fragged for this, but John Brown is an excellent WR2 not a WR1.  But that being said, I do like John Brown at a top end WR1B or WR2.  I think the worst play from him that I saw was the failed toe tap in the WC game, I know he logged 4 drops, but I don’t remember one really hurting a drive IE Big spot like I can with Knox’s and Beasley drops.  But either way another thing I do like that Brown gave is that 73.6% of his catches resulted in a first down. Which ranks him in 8th in the NFL with WRs and TEs with over 50 catches.  What I knew about him coming into Buffalo was he was blazing fast and that was confirmed, what I didn’t know and what he opened my eyes up to is how complete of a WR he is.  His route running is exceptional as well he always seemed to me that he was open, he easily would find holes in Zones, and in Man coverage he was always gaining separation out of his breaks as well.  This was a good signing from Buffalo and see why they also tried to sign him last year. 

 

 

 

Beasley also had a respectable 1st down conversion of 55.2% of his catches resulting in First down.  What I noticed about him, is he is better against man than he is against a zone.  I think the reason that is the way he runs routes and the crispness off then he gets immediate separation out of breaks.  Against a zone it is more of a feel to find the soft-spot or the seam in the zone.  My Cowboy friends told me that if he gets bracketed it can take him out of games, and I think that was seen as well.  Get another legit threat at WR or TE and it becomes much harder to do that too him.

 

 

 

The organizational depth in this group is atrocious.  There are really only 2 NFL caliber WRs on this roster and needs infusion of talent. So, I can see another offseason like last with going into the position multiple times, maybe a couple lower tier WRs via UFA and using a 1st or 2nd in the draft, or even a couple of draft picks.  How this position group gets addressed this offseason will be interesting.      

 

 

 

Possible Trade TGTs (hard to gauge until after SB):

 

OBJ – really is the only one I have heard so far as possibly being available this offseason.

 

 

 

UFAs Possible

 

Tier 1

 

AJ Green

 

Amari Cooper

 

Larry Fitzgerald

 

Emmanuel Sanders

 

Robbie Anderson (I wont downgrade him because of his off-field stuff)

 

 

 

Tier 2

 

Randall Cobb

 

Zach Pascal (EFRA) - meaning he 99.99999999999999999% is staying in Indy

Nelson Agholor

 

Breshad Perriman

 

Demarcus Robinson

 

Philip Dorsett

 

 

 

Draft (adding size here because I know people want to know that when talking WR)

 

Tier 1 (1st and 2nd round grades)

 

Outside:

Jerry Jeudy (6’1, 192) (Alabama)

 

CeeDee Lamb (6’2 189) (Oklahoma)

 

Tee Higgins (6’4 200) (Clemson)

 

Laviska Shenault Jr. (6’2 220) (Colorado)

 

Henry Ruggs III (6’0 183) (Alabama)

 

Tyler Johnson (6’2 200) (Minnesota)

 

Justin Jefferson (6’2 185) (LSU)

 

Michael Pittman Jr. (6’4 223) (USC)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

Jalen Reagor (5’11 195) (TCU)

 

KJ Hamler (5’9 174) (Penn ST)

 

Aaron Fuller (5’11 186) (Washington)

 

 

 

Tier 2 (3rd-5th round)

 

Outside:

 

Collin Johnson (6’6 220) (Texas)

 

Brandon Aiyuk (6’0 208) (Az ST)

 

Donovan People-Jones (6’2 208) (Michigan)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

None

 

 

 

Tier 3 (6th – Priority UFA)

 

Outside:

 

John Hightower (6’2 184) (Boise State)

 

KJ Hill (6’0 195) (Ohio St)

 

Antonio Gandy-Golden (6’4 216) (Liberty)

 

Chase Claypool (6’4 227) (ND)

 

Gabriel Davis (6’3 212) (UCF)

 

Denzel Mims (6’3 197) (Baylor)

 

Quinten Cephus (6’1 207) (Wisconsin)

 

Isaiah Hodgins (6’4 209) (Oregon State)

 

Bryan Edwards (6’3 215) (South Carolina)

 

 

 

Slot:

 

Devin Duvernay (5’11 186) (Texas)

 

James Poche (5’11 190) (SMU)

 

 

 

Final thinking in this Position group for me would be:

 

 

 

This position group needs work with right now only two legit NFL receivers on the roster.  Before I start with what I would do let me address what this would turn into.  AJ Green if I can get him to accept a Prove it Deal a 1-year 12M with little GTD I would.  Or I would also offer about what his value will be (with INJ and age) 2-year 19M with 9M GTD, 9.5M AVV.  But I don’t think he would accept that.  Now what I would like Bills to look at.

 

 

 

Go after a Tier 2 WR in UFA.  My Choice will be Breshard Perriman I don’t think Tampa is in a position to sign him.  And I think a Cole Beasley Contract is acceptable and will get it done 4 years 29M, 12 GTD with a 7.25M AVV and an easy out after the first year.  That will give you the same Deep speed as Foster and allows for the Rookie not to have to come right in and excel.  He really came on late in the year with Tampa.  That give me at last 3 real NFL WRs on the roster before the draft. 

 

 

 

In the draft I would take 2.  One early and one late.  My Early target right now is Laviska Shenault.  Reason why is he has the skill set right now we are filling with players.  Big and Powerful (Duke Williams). Plenty of Speed (will time in 4.4s or lower, Robert Foster) and can run jet sweeps, out of backfield, QB the WC similar to McKenzie).  He also has a good catch radius and can high point balls.

 

 

 

In Later round get be the Big TGT for competition with Duke Williams so like a Hodgins, Claypool, Mims.

 

 

 

This is the position group I would like addressed in the first round.  You Can see in round 3-5 the depth thins out in the outside WR group, so a lot of those Tier 3 guys are going to be over drafted.  Yes it is a deep draft like everyone is saying but that depth I fully anticipate will get gone fast, and if we wait until the second round (where we are picking we are going to miss out)

 

 

Definitely would like Quinton Cephus in the latter rounds.

 

 

[transplantbillsfan]

Okay... this is the only position group I really care about this offseason because it's the one I feel this team screwed up massively this year, and it cost us.

 

Ironically, I think the screwup was GM and coaching staff not being on the same page.

 

Beane basically upgraded our WR in its entirety in the offseason and he said at some point (and I'm paraphrasing) that since we brought Duke Williams in, we didn't really need to go out and get a big WR for Allen.

 

Except Duke rarely saw the field. And I think based on the last 2 games Buffalo played, the coaching staff realized their stupidity too late.

 

I honestly think Duke still stands a good chance of being a good NFL WR. Seems hungry and I think he's going to work as hard as any other NFL player will work this offseason. I bet he also goes to California to work with Allen, Knox & Co when they do that. However, with the NFL being the way it is with 1st round picks getting all the 2nd chances and UDFAs getting cut quickly, I could also see him getting cut. Based off scouting reports alone, I like what Shenault brings to the table. Sounds like exactly the type of WR that Allen needs and also sounds pretty similar to Duke.

[BeastMaster]

12 hours ago, NewEra said:

I fully expect us to have to trade up if we want Shenault.  He’s such an easy target for us.  If someone wants him, they know they’ll have to get ahead of us.  
 

I also think he’s the perfect fit in philly, who just so happens to pick one spot ahead of us.  Ugh.  Viska just seems like such the perfect fit and too good to be true him falling into our laps.  Gonna have to be aggressive.  But how aggressive and why not Lamb or Juedy if we wanna trade up?  
 

Beane has an interesting decision to make.  
 

i haven’t watched a enough tape on these kids yet, just a few highlights of each.  The guys id be happy with so far:  lamb, juedy, Shenault, Jefferson.  I haven’t seen much on Pittman so I can’t say for sure.  I think Higgins is good but I don’t like him or Riggs as much as the top 4.  Tyler johnson looks legit too.give me one of those guys.  Or K’Lavon Chaisson.  Love that guy 

 

edit:  Pittman looks to be quite the specimen. 

If he's our target...expect us to move into around the 15th pick to get him.

 

I would be absolutely ok with that 

[SoTier]

16 hours ago, SCBills said:

If we managed our cap, and kept all our picks, to go into next year without massive upgrades at WR, then that’s a massive fail.. and I don’t think our FO would fail like that...

 

I would expect us to be in on Cooper, or a trade for a WR1, if available OR take a 1st Round WR, at minimum. 
 

The play of our WRs in the Texans game was unacceptable for a team looking to compete for Championships. 
 

 

 

I totally agree.  The Bills are in desperate need of probably 2 big, sure-handed WR1 types.  I would like to see the Bills sign/trade for a veteran and draft one in the first or second round.   I don't think that the Bills can afford to waste another year of Allen's rookie contract with only Beasley and Brown as reliable WRs while hoping that a rookie WR can develop quickly -- if at all.

[Ayjent]

13 hours ago, NewEra said:

Yup.  Get ready for it.  Kid is dynamite and not gonna last til the 20s imo.   
 

another great breakdown Maj. Your breakdowns are the only threads I can tolerate since the loss.

 

 

pain

For some reason I get the impression that this guy is not going to translate into a good Pro player.  I like Higgins, Jefferson and Pittman more as pros, but not immediate No. 1 options.  Higgins is actually much better against press coverage and teams were reluctant to play press against him bc of it and his speed.  He’s a really good combo of size and speed.  Pittman is more of a possession WR but such a strong runner after the catch and has really good ability to adjust to throws that aren’t right on target.  Not as fast, but speed isn’t everything.  I think you have Chase Claypool rated way too low in draft position and he could be a good value target.  There are so many WRs in this draft it’s kind of a perfect situation for the Bills to continue build that offensive nucleus and potentially take more than one WR.

 

I like Greenard at DE for Bills if he is there in 2nd.  But focus should be on offense especially upgrading OL and WR.  They also need depth at RB, but the Bills like veteran presence for younger guys and I would love to see them hire Gore into coaching staff if he is going to hang it up.  If that happens you could see them go much younger and draft a complimentary back that can pound it between the tackles.

[mannc]

20 hours ago, Joe in Winslow said:

Get an edge guy in the second if YOU JUST HAVE TO.

 

WR in the first. Period.

 

This really goes without saying.  Nonetheless, I’m preparing to be disappointed.  If Chaisson or Gross-Matos is available at 22, I don’t think Mc Dermott will be able to help himself.