Buffalo Bills TRADE Out and Gear Up For More—Brandon Beane SHAKES up 2026 NFL Draft

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Buffalo Bills shake up the 2026 NFL Draft by trading completely out of the first round, opting for value and flexibility over a marquee pick. Can Brandon Beane’s bold move turn more picks into a deeper, more versatile roster for Josh Allen’s squad? Joe Marino breaks down the Bills’ draft-night strategy, revealing how increased draft capital sets up the team to address critical needs at linebacker, defensive line, and wide receiver. Key players like Christen Miller, Jacob Rodriguez, and Denzel Boston headline Buffalo’s top targets as day two approaches. The conversation explores draft trade details, positional depth concerns, and whether stacking day-two and day-three picks will finally fill the holes left on the Bills’ roster. Are more big moves on the horizon, or did the Bills just make their most important play before day two even kicks off?

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0:00.0	It's Christmas morning and you're all excited to open your present, but there's a catch.
0:06.4	There's no present for you today, but if you can wait until tomorrow, there's even more gifts under the tree.
0:18.3	You are locked on bills, your daily Buffalo Bills podcast.
0:23.8	Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:29.9	What's up, Bill's Mafia?
0:31.9	It's Joe Marino.
0:33.2	On today's episode, we're reacting to what the bills did or I guess didn't do in the first
0:40.9	round of the 2026 NFL draft. Of course, the bills made no selections. They traded back
0:48.3	and then traded back again and then traded out of the first round.
0:55.3	If you remember our very first draft conversation for this cycle,
1:00.8	the prevailing thought that I had at the time was that the bills needed to trade out of the pick.
1:08.0	And our last conversation that we had before the draft, my prevailing thought was,
1:17.5	unless Casey Concepcion's there, you got to trade back. And that's exactly what
1:24.5	Brandon Bean did on Thursday night.
1:29.0	This is a draft that the bills entered with more needs than they've had in a long time.
1:38.1	And we had a conversation earlier this week about what rostering rookies and how many players the bills could roster and on the
1:45.9	conservative low end i said seven on the aggressive side i said 13 the bills entered this draft
1:55.7	26th in draft capital every pick pick in the draft has a point value assigned to it.
2:04.6	And when you added up all the picks that the bills had and the value assigned to it,
2:09.3	they were 26 out of 32 teams in the NFL, staring at needs at interior defensive line,
2:16.7	linebacker, edge rusher, needing verticality at
2:20.8	receiver, corner depth, offensive tackle depth. You have future needs you'd love to get ahead of
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