Bills draft radar includes UB linebacker with historic takeaway skill

The number jumps out at you like a lightning bolt flashing across the sky when you dive into the draft profile of University at Buffalo linebacker Red Murdock. Seventeen forced fumbles across his final three seasons as the anchor in the middle of the Bulls defense, the most ever recorded by an FBS player, breaking the record of 16 set by another former Bull, a guy named Khalil Mack. “It’s a great feeling,” Murdock said on the day he set the new standard during a 28-3 blowout of Bowling Green on Nov.

1, 2025. “I’ve looked up to Khalil all my life. ” Why the Buffalo Bills could see Red Murdock as a draft fit Sure, some of that is luck, but not all of it.

That was Murdock’s superpower, his remarkable ability to create turnovers during his 42-game career at UB, and it’s something that will prompt a team to select him at some point on Day 3 of the NFL Draft. Should that team be the Buffalo Bills who have a clear need at linebacker? Perhaps, and that would be cool with the 22-year-old from Petersburg, Virginia who came north to play for UB and stuck around for the duration, even playing 2025 as a grad student after he’d graduated magna cum laude in May 2024 with a degree in psychology.

“Shoot, I mean obviously being able to play beside Joseph Andreessen,” Murdock said with a smile at the NFL scouting combine, referencing his former Bulls teammate who will be heading into his third season with the Bills. “Buffalo is a great community, a great city. Buffalo is my second home already, so it would be a blessing to not have to go anywhere else.