Orchard Park, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane did what he always does in the NFL Draft on Thursday night – he followed his board.
The board fell in a way that kept the usually aggressive Beane from trading up to get the receiver that Bills fans have been clamoring for all offseason. As numerous reports indicated before the draft, he didn’t call teams in the Top 10 to check on the possibility of trading up. In fact, he didn’t make a single call to a team to try to trade up.
So when pick no. 28 arrived, several teams were looking to move up and the pool of players that Beane and the Bills had a first-round grade on were all gone.
The Kansas City Chiefs were the team offering the most for the Bills’ pick. Beane lost a third-round pick in the Rasul Douglas trade last …