B
Buffalo Bills
The Bills did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B.
by Jek ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 2 steals
· 2 reaches
Call it belief, call it a gut call, but Jaishawn Barham at the 81st overall pick is 40 spots clear of consensus, and that is the headline. A sturdy weekend that grades out a B.
Sarratt falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. The interior defensive lineman hole is the one line item this class does not answer. A modest surplus at the table, banked quietly.
They left with linebacker solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.
Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Pick-by-Pick
A clean, defensible pick in No. 38 with a little surplus value in CJ Allen. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren in pick 66 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They talked themselves into Jaishawn Barham at pick No. 81, and the board did not agree. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They will replay Elijah Sarratt at the Round 4 slot for years; that is how good the value is. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
No drama and no debate, Davison Igbinosun went about where he belonged in slot 126. A minor itch, scratched.
They liked DJ Campbell enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 5, Pick 28. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
No edge and no loss on Eli Heidenreich in pick No. 236; it is a wash and a sensible one. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Fair-plus on Trey Zuhn III, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.