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Building roster and payroll flexibility to compete in the present, as well as the future, has been a focus for the Buffalo Bills front office under the leadership of GM Brandon Beane.
The NFL Draft and the teams’ focus on player development have played a key role in this process, making scouting and identifying talent at each round important.
Their draft selection success stories are a testament to the success that Beane and the Bills coaching staff have had in building such a roster.
In fact Pro Football Focus has highlighted an example of that success in identifying the NFL Linebacker who has had the lowest passer rating allowed in coverage since 2017.
None other than the Bills very own Matt Milano.
Linebackers with the lowest passer rating allowed in coverage since 2017
🥇 Matt Milano: 84.8
🥈 Roquan Smith: 85.0
🥉 Jayon Brown: 88.3 pic.twitter.com/iAapENGx5T— PFF BUF Bills (@PFF_Bills) June 26, 2022
Milano leads all active NFL linebackers (84.8) and is followed by the next two closest at that position in Roquan Smith (85.0) of the Chicago Bears then Jayon Brown (88.3) of the Las Vegas Raiders.
PFF has held Milano in high regard in their past rankings at his position and even ranked him as the 10th best LB in the NFL.
Selected in the fifth round out of Boston College on day three of the 2017 NFL Draft by Buffalo, he is a good example of the success the organization has had in finding impactful talent outside the first round.
Milano has played a key role in the Bills defensive ascension to being one of the best in the league, and he projects to continue to contribute and make an impact on the field in the immediate future.
He has certainly established himself as a Bills draft and player development success story.
So much so that the team even drafted a third-round LB in this year’s draft who has modeled his game after Milano’s in Terrel Bernard, perhaps forecasting the next good find at the position for Buffalo.
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