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  • Buffalo Bills NFL Draft results 2024 — Round 1 open thread

    The 2024 NFL Draft is finally upon us! Unlike any other professional or college sport, the NFL’s annual rookie selection process has become an event nearly as big as the sport’s playoff tournament. It isn’t always thrilling, but the various networks and outlets do a fantastic job of creating excitement between each digital jingle announcing to all that “the pick is in.” For Bills Mafia, there’s once again a potential wait of more than three hours before the Buffalo Bills make their first pick at...

  • SB Nation Reacts results: Bills Mafia weighs in with Round 1 preferences

    The results are in, Bills Mafia! Yesterday we asked you to weigh in about the Buffalo Bills’ proceedings this evening. Should Buffalo’s decision makers stay put at 28, trade up, or move back into Round 2? The two previous seasons, general manager Brandon Beane authored trades to move up to select cornerback Kaiir Elam (2022) and tight end Dalton Kincaid (2023). In both cases, the team moved up two spots in Round 1. In fact, in four of six drafts, the current regime has chosen to trade up. Should...

  • Bruce Nolan’s 2024 mock draft for the Buffalo Bills

    Most mock drafts aren’t intended to be predictive. As much as the NFL community can sometimes say they hate the exercises where media members or analysts conjure up fictional outcomes to the NFL Draft, mock drafts remain incredibly popular methods of generating web traffic because they get clicked on. People want to scroll through, see who their team picked in the hypothetical rumination, and then react to it. Sometimes they don’t even know the player at all and are reacting to the position...

  • A Buffalo Bills mock draft compendium one weekend before the 2024 NFL Draft

    Buckle in. We’re less than a week away from the 2024 NFL Draft. Very late into the night next Thursday, we should know who the Buffalo Bills have selected in Round 1, unless they find reason to trade out of the first round altogether. It’s been a busy offseason of NFL football discussion, much of which has been spent daydreaming about how the Bills intend to add talent at wide receiver. Even before the trade that sent Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans and left Bills Mafia reeling, the perceived...

  • Terry Pegula exploring selling 25% minority-stake ownership in Buffalo Bills, per report

    The Buffalo Bills are exploring a potential 25% minority shareholder’s stake in team ownership, per an article by Tim Graham with The Athletic, with the Bills confirming as much is true. With the news still in its infancy, there aren’t a lot of solid, reported details to share at this point. Per Graham’s article, co-owner Terry Pegula “has hired Florida-based investment bankers Allen & Company to handle the potential transactions but declined to say how much of the team is being sold.” Graham...