Final Thoughts on the Bills Draft

It's over, and don't expect one of those cheesy letter grades from me, for the Buffalo Bills 2008 draft. How can you grade guys you've never seen? As I think about it, I probably only watched two of the Bills 10-draft picks play college football: James Hardy of Indiana, and Chris Ellis at Virginia Tech. I consider myself a pretty avid college football fan, but how many chances do you get to see Troy University, NW Missouri State, or even Iowa State? Which is not to say I wouldn't watch those schools. I wish I would have seen Leodis McKelvin run back one of the 7 punt returns he ran back for touchdowns during his college career. I wish I came across Iowa State LB Alvin Bowen when he was making some of his 155-tackles during his junior season. I would have paid to watch Xavier Omon run wild for Northwest Missouri State. Now, I'm excited to see what they can do for the Bills. It will really be training camp in Rochester this summer, before we start to get a good handle on who these guys are, and how they might be able to help.
If you're keeping score at home, the Bills wound up with 5 picks on offense(2-WRs, 1-RB, 1-TE, 1-OT) and 5-on defense(3-CBs, 1-DE, 1-LB). I guess I loved to see the Bills get a Tight End in this draft earlier than they did (4th round), but it appears the board didn't fall that way. All in all, a pretty good draft.

John Murphy at the Bills Draft