Grading The Buffalo Bills 2024 NFL Draft After Making A Huge Move On Night One

The Bills went into the NFL Draft with the 28th pick in the first round on Thursday, and they wouldn’t make a selection because they would trade the pick to the Kansas City Chiefs and use that pick on Texas’s wide receiver Xavier Worthy. 

Worthy was the fastest receiver in the draft class, and many think he can be the new Tyreek Hill of the Chiefs. The Bills could have handed Kansas City their new star. 

The Bills were also the team who traded back in 2017 and let the Chiefs come up and take a quarterback out of Texas Tech by the name of Patrick Mahomes, and he has gone on to beat the Bills now in three playoffs, preventing them from going to the Super Bowl. 

You can’t trade with the Chiefs if you’re Buffalo; it doesn’t matter what they offer you. Letting the team that keeps beating you in the postseason almost every year come in and take their guy isn’t a good thing, and it could come back and hurt Buffalo once again. 

Keon Coleman

The Bills would trade out of the first round again and send the 32nd pick they got from Kansas City to Carolina for pick 33rd, the first pick of the second round. With that pick, they would take Keon Coleman, the wide receiver from Florida State. 

Coleman stands 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 215 pounds. He can be a serious X receiver in the NFL and could be the big target that quarterback Josh Allen needs. Coleman might not become a star in the league, but his height can bring something new to this Bills offense and should be productive.  

Day Two And Three Picks

The Bills, recognizing their need for safety, made a crucial decision with their second pick in round two. They selected Utah Safety Cole Bishop, a move that was necessitated by the departure of veterans Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde this offseason. 

Bishop was a need, so he was a bit of a reach, but the Bills couldn’t leave the draft without getting a safety in the first couple of rounds, and the safety class isn’t great, to begin with, so if you wanted one early, you would have to reach. 

In round five, the Bills took Sedrick Van Pran, the center, out of Georgia, and this is a great pick right here. Van Pran will probably need a year to sit, but he could one day be a starting center in the NFL and, according to Pro Football Focus, had an 81.5 pass-blocking grade last season. 

Buffalo Bills Draft Grade B-

The Buffalo Bills draft was pretty solid, but trading with the Chiefs and letting them draft their wide receiver of the future is not a good look. They have to be knocked for that. The Coleman pick was a good selection, and they drafted some excellent depth in the later rounds, so the Bills B-grade is about right.