Little introduction needed.
It’s Thursday and the 2020 NFL Draft is upon us. While the Bills don’t have a first-round pick as things kickoff, Buffalo still enters the selection process with seven picks.
The first is slated in the second round and the last at No. 239. What could the Bills possibly do with those?
The Bills Wire staff once again comes together to present perhaps the largest grouping of mock for Bills Mafia to digest. Managing editor Nick Wojton’s final mock is joined by contributors Kyle Silagyi, Justin DiLoro, Matt Johnson, McKenna Middlebrook and Jeremy Juhasz.
Check out all six mock drafts here, and either let us know on social media or our message boards which one you’d prefer:
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Nick’s mock
Round 2 | No. 54: DE Curtis Weaver, Boise State
Round 3 | No. 86: LB Akeem Davis-Gaither, Appalachian State
Round 4 | No. 128: RB Zach Moss, Utah
Round 5 | No. 167: RB/ WR Antonio Gibson, Memphis
Round 6 | No. 188: WR Antonio Gandy-Golden, Liberty
Round 6 | No. 207: TE Josiah Deguara, Cincinnati
Round 7 | No. 239: OL Daryl Williams, Ole Miss
Without a need in sight for the Bills, it’s best player available time in Orchard Park. Starting things off my mock is Boise State’s Curtis Weaver. He lacks some speed, but aside from that, what didn’t he do in the Mountain West? Where he won the Defensive Player of the Year Award just last season. With that in mind, Weaver could be a first-round talent the Bills grab in the second round because he’ll have to prove he can play in the pros. The Bills can stick him in their defensive line rotation and even give him a bit of a redshirt type of season behind Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison.
If the move is Weaver, Round 2 must be offense, right? Not here. Akeem Davis-Gaither, the App. State linebacker, is the move. Two things are for sure about Sean McDermott. He runs that rotation on the D-line, and he loved what Lorenzo Alexander brought to the table. AJ Klein is a short-term fix for the Bills there, but Davis-Gaither can be groomed for the long haul.
Finally some offense, and some offense the rest of the way for me. Running back Zach Moss from Utah isn’t going to be Frank Gore in the locker room, but he can be him on the field. What he lacks in speed he makes up for in power. A strong complement to Devin Singletary. Sticking in the backfield, kind of… Antonio Gibson from Memphis is snagged next. His stock falls because he doesn’t even have a true position to play. Is he a running back? Is he a wideout? Some teams would shy from that, Buffalo offensive coordinator Brian Daboll will love it.
Liberty’s Antonio Gandy-Golden, Cincinnati’s Josiah Deguara and Ole Miss’s Daryl Williams rounds this out. Gandy-Golden, at 6-foot-4, brings some size at the wideout room. The Bills brought in Greg Olsen this offseason for a free agent visit, so Deguara, who’s met with the Bills multiple times in the pre-draft process, is a late-round pick as a tight end, and then Williams could compete with… you guessed it, the Daryl Williams already signed in free agency, for playing time on the O-line. But on a more serious note, he’s a former team captain and versatile.