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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the wake of the 2021 NFL draft comes a new influx of speculation regarding roster plans, and the Buffalo Bills are no exception.
General manager Brandon Beane spent the weeks prior to the draft answering questions about his strategy as honestly as he could -- and backed up his statements with the players he selected.
Before anyone gets too far ahead of themselves as rookie minicamp opens Friday, here's what Buffalo's draft means for a few position groups:
Running backs
The idea of the Bills drafting a running back was a popular topic (cue the, "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme), and Beane did little to extinguish that flame during his pre-draft news conference, saying that if a running back added an element the Bills didn't already have, he would consider that player with the team's No. 30 overall pick.
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Running backs have been so devalued over the last 10 years in the NFL that a general manager can spark criticism for trading up five spots to draft one in the second round — even one whom many analysts had graded as the No. 1 prospect at his position in North Carolina's Javonte Williams.
The former UNC star forced a total of 76 missed tackles on runs last season, per Pro Football Focus, and that ability to pick up yards after contact prompted Denver Broncos' GM George Paton to orchestrate a trade-up with Atlanta to select Williams with the No. 35 pick in last week's NFL draft.
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In today's age of football, it is a win for the running back position to see two players picked in the first round of the NFL draft.
That was the case Thursday in the opening round of the 2021 draft when the Pittsburgh Steelers selected Alabama's Najee Harris with the No. 24 pick and the Jacksonville Jaguars picked Clemson's Travis Etienne with the No. 25 pick.
It didn't take long for another running back to come off the board Friday when the Denver Broncos selected North Carolina's Javonte Williams with the third pick of the second round.
That's when the momentum ended, as no other running back came off the board until the San Francisco 49ers took Ohio State's Trey Sermon with the No. 88 overall pick in the middle of the third round.
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