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Draft Selections
Terrion Arnold Head Shot
PICK: 29 RND: 1 (BUF)
Terrion Arnold
CB Alabama
Adonai Mitchell Head Shot
PICK: 61 RND: 2 (BUF)
Adonai Mitchell
WR Texas
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 99 RND: 3 (BUF)
Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
LB Clemson
MarShawn Lloyd Head Shot
PICK: 129 RND: 4 (BUF)
MarShawn Lloyd
RB USC
Nehemiah Pritchett Head Shot
PICK: 156 RND: 5 (BUF)
Nehemiah Pritchett
CB Auburn
Jordan Travis Head Shot
PICK: 166 RND: 5 (BUF)
Jordan Travis
QB Florida State
Curtis Jacobs Head Shot
PICK: 200 RND: 6 (BUF)
Curtis Jacobs
LB Penn State
Christian Jones Head Shot
PICK: 207 RND: 6 (BUF)
Christian Jones
OT Texas
Bru McCoy Head Shot
PICK: 208 RND: 6 (BUF)
Bru McCoy
WR Tennessee
Zakhari Franklin Head Shot
PICK: 250 RND: 7 (BUF)
Zakhari Franklin
WR Mississippi
Draft Grade — Bills
Overall B
ValueB+ NeedB TradesB- FutureB-
The Bills won the night they stopped Franklin from sliding. Grade: B.

The Bills did not reach, did not trade up, did not blink. They just waited, and Zakhari Franklin fell into the Round 7 slot.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up. They left with linebacker solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

Value over need was the throughline, for better and worse.

Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick29 Rnd1 Terrion Arnold
In the Round 1 slot they get a press-man option on the boundary. More want than need.
Pick61 Rnd2 Adonai Mitchell
They robbed the room for Adonai Mitchell here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick99 Rnd3 Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. at Round 3, Pick 36 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick129 Rnd4 MarShawn Lloyd
The board fumbled MarShawn Lloyd all the way to the 129th pick, and they scooped it up. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick156 Rnd5 Nehemiah Pritchett
Steal is underselling it; Nehemiah Pritchett at the 156th overall pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
Pick166 Rnd5 Jordan Travis
They barely believed it either: Jordan Travis still on the board at No. 166. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick200 Rnd6 Curtis Jacobs
No edge and no loss on Curtis Jacobs in slot 200; it is a wash and a sensible one. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick207 Rnd6 Christian Jones
Christian Jones in pick No. 207 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick208 Rnd6 Bru McCoy
Bru McCoy at the 208th overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick250 Rnd7 Zakhari Franklin
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Zakhari Franklin in pick No. 250, plain and simple. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.