Welcome JT Woods, DB, Baylor (R3, #79)

[Bearded14YourPleasure]

Now that’s the 4th has played out it’s pretty easy to see Woods wasn’t an ‘overdraft’. 4 safeties went between 79 and 123 including big names like Percy Butler and Dane Belton. There is 0% chance JT would have been there at 123.

[Cdn Bolt]

The Bills have holes to fill also especially at OL.

No they don't actually not sure where you get that. Their OL was relatively set from last year, they lost an OG but brought in Roger Saffold and it wasn't even a draft need. They haven't used 1 pick on an OL in the draft either.

[Cdn Bolt]

They only drafted one safety under Staley before this, and he was a 7th rounder.

Staley has been here for 1 year so not sure why you limit to just his tenure. They have drafted 6 safeties since 2016. Kyzhir White was a S so like I said every year they seem to bring a S.

[equivocation]

They drafted him as a starter, he'll have to earn it though.

Line: Bosa-Johnson-SJD-Mack
Backers: Tranquill-Murray
Star: James
Secondary: ASJ-Adderley-Woods-Jackson


He'll compete with Davis for reps when James moves back to deep safety.

[Steve]

You haven't taken a very close look at the Bills salary cap situation then. A lot of their guys are FA next season. That makes it a pretty big need. Just not an immediate need.

[Xenos]

Staley has been here for 1 year so not sure why you limit to just his tenure. They have drafted 6 safeties since 2016. Kyzhir White was a S

White was not a S. Phillips and Jenkins were gone by the time Staley was here.

[Guest]

I never play the trade-game because you can know if anyone is willing to trade down for standard compensation
but I hear you, I thought for sure we would trade up to the top of round 3
It's not Woods fault that Tom reached, so I'll be rooting hard for the kid.

We do know that the pick (#75) could have been had in a trade because it was had in a trade. Houston traded into that pick and offered less than what our pick offer would have been as we had the better picks in rounds 3 and 5 to offer. The only issue could have been DEN not wanting to trade within the division, but they would have had to sacrifice draft value to not trade within the division.

[Guest]

What if we didn’t want Jones?

We took Ogbonnia, a much lesser version of Travis Jones, so there goes that idea.

[Cdn Bolt]

You haven't taken a very close look at the Bills salary cap situation then. A lot of their guys are FA next season. That makes it a pretty big need. Just not an immediate need.

No one had OL as a draft need for them this year. Maybe perhaps next year if they have trouble w their cap but through 5 rnds they have signed no Ol.

[Guest]

Stills thinks this is a Craig Mager thread.....

Still is clueless.

[Cdn Bolt]

White was not a S. Phillips and Jenkins were gone by the time Staley was here.

White was a S in college - they have drafted 5 w out him. I don't care about since Staley was here. Mgmt has drafted a lot of safeties over the recent years. 5 of them. 2 in the last 2 years.

[Guest]

I get the disappointment. I had never heard of this guy. If I were running the draft and had stayed at our selection I would have picked Nakobe Dean.

I was initially disappointed, but then I reminded myself that players such as Dean and Travis Jones, both of whom were projected to go much earlier, fell to the third round for a reason. There's no guarantee on any of these guys starting in the NFL or even playing beyond three years.

There are never guarantees about any players, but risk can be minimized. We were obviously interested in a big DT as we selected Ogbonnia. The fact remains that we could have had Travis Jones at #75 and we do not have to guess about the original owner of that pick trading it because they did trade and traded it for less than what we would have offered.

When people on our forum complain that we are so close and are only a player or two away, they should remember scenarios like this one where that player or two were lost. That, more than anything, is my point. It is not a knock on Woods as a player. It is a knock on our poor draft strategy.