How the NFL draft reshaped the Bills’ linebacker depth chart
The Bills added rookie draft picks TJ Parker and Kaleb Elarms-Orr to their linebacking unit. Here's how the depth chart looks heading into OTAs.
ORCHARD PARK - There is some scuttlebutt emanating from New York that Buffalo Bills president/general manager Brandon Beane had every intention of picking Indiana wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. at No. 31 in the first round of the NFL Draft.
However, he never got the chance, reportedly, because the Jets got wind of this and made a trade to jump ahead of Buffalo to No. 30 where the 49ers were sitting so they could beat Beane to the punch and get the best receiver on the Hoosiers’ national championship team. Sorry, but that doesn’t fly for me because if Beane truly wanted to pick Cooper, he could have had him at No.
26 with Buffalo’s original first-round pick, and at No. 28 after he traded down to the Texans’ spot. Why would he risk losing the player with a second trade down to New England at No.
31? After the Jets got Cooper, Beane quickly made his third trade down, but I don’t think that had anything to do with Beane moving out of the first round and landing at No. 35 , the Titans spot near the top of the second round.
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