The Bills started the day off with a major reach in Donte Whitner, and follow it up by trading up to take John McCargo. That's right, they traded up to make that pick.

Any Buffalo Bills fans here? Can you defend these picks in anyway?

While I am not a Bills fan, I am a NC State Fan. As much as like McCargo, he by no means should have been drafted in the first round. He was helped by Manny Lawson and Mario Williams. He was a mid-late 2nd rounder.

And it is worse than that. the Bills traded picks away to get into the first round and make that pick. It is absolutely insane!

I think its really early to declare it the worst draft ever. The players they got have yet to be tested in the NFL. They definitely weren't very smart about what they did but you gotta at least acknowledge that they were agressive in getting the guys they wanted for need positions.

Safety and Defensive tackle were good areas to address for Buffalo, even if they went about doing it in a really idiotic manner. What probably happened was that their draft room was so cautious that they didn't want to gamble at all with the possibility that the guys they wanted wouldn't be there.

Didnt call it the worst draft, just the worst "first round"

Doesnt matter if these guys pan out to be great or not. They could have taken the best available player at #8 rather than reaching for Whitner, and still got Whitner in the 2nd round. McCargo would have no doubt made it to the 3rd round.

These were horrible picks.

In answer to the threads title: quite possibly. Actually, no, Indi taking Jeff George in the first round trumps them all.

If I had to give Buffalo a grade it'd be a C-

but its not the worst ever, unless the players turn out to be flops.

Whitner wouldn't have lasted past the 20th pick. Hes going to be good folks. I dont know about this whole nc state craze, but 1 out of 2 aint bad.


Nc State went what? (5-6)? How do they do that bad with 3 quality defensive lineman? I dont understand this at all....

Whitner was a 2nd round pick that got drafted early. Very early being the #8 pick.

He has top 15 talent, and he filled a need. He will be a much better player, albeit a gambler, in the pro's.

Still doesnt excuse the pick, even if that were true. Fact is, he would have been available later.

They could have easily had Ngata at #8 and got Whitner in the 2nd. and wouldnt have needed to trade picks to get this.


Doesnt matter what you think his talent is, he wasnt commanding that pick. Safeties have no value in this draft in the first round.

Given how crazy this draft is, you can't say for certain if he would have been available. I actually like this draft, because people are picking the best players for their system for once, instead of just cherry picking the most talented player and praying to God they fit.

State went 7-5 with 3 1st rounders on thier line.

He had been moving up the last two weeks. He was a first rounder in lot of teams eyes but I don't believe this high. Buffalo got some bad intel that someone was gonna take him at bottom half of the draft...the steelers. Their move triggered the ZSteelers to trade up and reach for Holmes. Those two draft rooms have some inter-mingled staffers. Buffalo was gonna take Holmes at 26. It was in-excusable that Buffalo passed on Ngata and Bunkley.

Buffalo redeemed their early screw ups some in the third. Youboty was a great value in the 3rd round, projected by most as a 1st round pick

Whitner was a reach at 8 for sure, but 2nd round talent is ludicrious.

I do think this was a poor 1st round from a value standpoint.

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I guess some people do their draft homework and other teams dont.
In Buffalo's case it seems like it was a combination of not doing enough homework and being scared to death to take any risks.

I still think Buffalo did better than Indi. I mean, what teams takes a player projected as a third round pick as the first overall pick? Indi, that's what.

Addai fits that system like a glove is what I have heard, and he was also projected as a mied to high 2nd by most pubs that I read. It was also highly rumored that this would be the pick. Not a suprise, and really not too big of a reach IMO.

For being scared to death to take any risks, they sure ended up taking 2 HUGE ones in the 1st round.