Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane has impressed the folks at NBC Sports’ Rotoworld enough to see himself ranked as a top-10 general manager in the NFL recently.
In these GM power rankings, Buffalo’s lands at No. 9 overall. While quarterback Josh Allen doesn’t get the big praise in the explanation, Beane does and one very intriguing potential future projection is mentioned.
Here’s why Beane is considering Rotoworld’s ninth-best GM:
Rick Spielman has company. Like his Vikings counterpart, Brandon Beane only speaks in big moves. The two worked together on one this offseason, with Beane avenging last year’s Antonio Brown near miss by acquiring Stefon Diggs. It is Beane and Sean McDermott’s last-ditch effort at salvaging their front office-defining move of trading up — twice — for Josh Allen. Beane and McDermott are in perfect harmony on defense. The pieces are also falling into place on offense, but Allen is a literal and figurative wild card. If he’s the next Blake Bortles, the Bills’ defensive foundation won’t amount to much. If he’s something more, the Patriots’ reign of AFC East terror might finally be over. Beane and McDermott have been good enough that they should survive a potential Allen failure, but it will represent a massive missed opportunity with an otherwise readymade roster.
Traditionally, the Patriots’ Bill Belichick lands at the top-overall spot in such polls, and he does once again. He edged out the Steelers’ Kevin Colbert and Chiefs’ Brett Beach, respectively. Still, that’s to be expected, Belichick’s done it a long, long time. Beane’s relatively new to his gig, only hired in 2017, and he’s done a bang up job since then.
The most interesting point by Rotoworld is their opinion that Beane might get a second crack at a quarterback. Most NFL GMs have one chance to get that right. And so much rides on it. It’d be quite the scenario if Beane does get a chance at finding another franchise QB, that is, outside of Jake Fromm.
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