Bills predicted to make surprise 1st-round NFL Draft trade
Buffalo has some incentive to make a move.
Bills predicted to make surprise 1st-round NFL Draft trade originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Under the front office leadership of Brandon Beane, the Buffalo Bills often make trades with their first-round pick.
That may be the case again in the 2026 NFL Draft. ESPN's Matt Miller wrote in a new article on Friday that the Bills are the team he believes is most likely to trade down in the first round of this month's draft. If it happens, it'll have to do with one of two things -- either that the Bills would rather acquire a veteran in exchange for an unproven rookie, or that they want to accumulate more draft capital in total.
It doesn't sound like such a move is considered to be an easy one this year, though. "Finding a partner willing to move into Round 1 might be as difficult as predicting which team will move out," Miller writes. "It's expected that teams will not give up too much 2027 capital based on the strength of next year's class.
That makes me think it'll be a "win-now" team willing to jump out of Round 1. Buffalo GM Brandon Beane has long been a fan of moving down on draft day. And with just three picks in first four rounds, the Bills could benefit from adding draft capital.