B
Buffalo Bills
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Bills and Smith: B.
by Kenny proctor ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 2 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Genesis Smith, No. 126, roughly 19 picks past where he belonged.
They punted on edge rusher, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest. Linebacker was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job. Nearly every premium pick went to that side of the ball.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 26 they get a downhill thumper at linebacker at a price that makes it sweeter. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
A straight-up fair deal on Bryce Lance at pick No. 91, value and slot in agreement. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Genesis Smith at slot 126 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Rayshaun Benny at the 165th overall pick is a sensible buy, a touch better than market for the interior defensive lineman. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Kage Casey in the Round 5 slot lands just on the right side of the ledger. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A clean, defensible pick in the 182nd pick with a little surplus value in Febechi Nwaiwu. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Landon Robinson at No. 220 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.