‘Now this isn’t necessarily a huge surprise, but the focus was all about the defense, with their first five picks on that side of the ball. That included two players the Bills traded up for, with defensive tackles T.J. Sanders in the second round & Deone Walker in the fourth round. In total, the Bills drafted six defensive players, and three offensive players.’
BillsBeat - April 27, 2025
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‘Buffalo added Maryland DT Deone Walker, Ohio State CB Jordan Hancock, Georgia Tech TE Jackson Hawes, Virginia Tech CB Dorian Strong, UConn OT Chase Lundt and Maryland WR Kaden Prather to a 2025 draft class that already included Kentucky CB Maxwell Hairston, South Carolina DT T.J. Sanders, and Arkansas DE Landon Jackson.’
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‘Visit Buffalo Niagara President & CEO Patrick Kaler was with Bills officials in Green Bay. “I think we’re pretty serious,” Kaler said. “We’re at least very serious at looking at the potential of this and what we can bring to it as a destination and getting the NFL excited about a potential bid from the city of Buffalo and the Buffalo Bills.”‘
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‘By adding Hancock and Strong, the Bills certainly have a lot of competition at cornerback, arguably the most pressing need this offseason.’
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‘It was widely anticipated that defense would be the focus and a consistent theme throughout the three days in which Buffalo made their draft selections this weekend and that proved to be the case. Each of the Bills’ first five picks were on the defensive side of the ball, marking the first time that’s happened since the Bills’ 2006 draft.’
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‘”A guy who plays with a high IQ, adaptable, explosive, twitchy,” Sanders said of how he would describe himself. “Can play the run, can rush the passer, I feel like that’s just me.”‘
BillsBeat - April 26, 2025
Bills move up in second round to select South Carolina defensive tackle T.J. Sanders
‘Sanders, 6-foot-4 and 297 pounds, spent his entire college career with the Gamecocks, appearing in 39 games with 16 starts. He appeared in 13 games and made nine starts in 2024, finishing with 50 tackles (seven for loss) and four sacks. In 2023, he started seven games and finished with 43 tackles (9½ for loss), 4½ sacks and four passes defensed.’
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‘“My phone said, ‘potential spam risk’ whenever they called,” Jackson said. “I thought I was getting pranked to be honest with you. Then, my wife said, ‘Go ahead and pick it up. I think it’s somebody.’ And then I picked it up, and they said, ‘This is the Buffalo Bills.’”’
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‘So getting more interior pressure is a must. Sanders produced decent pass rush stats, with four sacks in 2024 and 4½ in 2023. That’s despite playing only 36 snaps a game the past two years.’
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‘“We got a chance to talk about comfort in zone and man and I just think I’m so versatile, I can work in the scheme because it’s a mixture of both,” Hairston said. “I feel like I’m a player, you can put me anywhere on the field – zone or man, whether I’m pressing or off – they’ll trust me to go out and make a play if the opportunity presents itself.”’
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‘Sanders has the versatility to play both the one-tech and three-tech, but he will have to work on his run defense which wasn’t always superior in college. At 6-foot-3, he does have nice size on the interior, and he ran a 4.95 in the 40 so he has athleticism.’
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‘There are some injury concerns as he suffered a torn ACL and a broken ankle in high school, and when he started his career at LSU he again tore the ACL and missed eight games. But after he transferred to Arkansas in 2022 he stayed healthy and put up three outstanding seasons.’
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‘The vision could not be clearer: For five consecutive years, the Buffalo defense has played poorly in the playoff elimination game – four losses to the Chiefs, one to the Bengals – and not even the brilliance of Josh Allen could overcome the defensive shortcomings.’
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‘The Beane/McDermott regime has unearthed several mid- to low-round success stories, but so have previous Bills’ regimes.’
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‘“We thought there would be some good options for us tonight,” Beane said. “We didn’t necessarily think we would need to trade back or trade up, and being patient paid off. I know we usually do trade, or I usually do trade – we had opportunities both ways, but liked what was there.”’