Trade up, trade down, or stay put — what does Brandon Beane have up his sleeve this year?
The 2024 NFL Draft is finally here! The Buffalo Bills hold pick number 28 in Round 1 of tonight’s draft. Will general manager Brandon Beane, who has traded up in the first round of the past two drafts, trade up again? Will he trade up for one of the big three wide receivers? Or will he just move up a couple of spots like he has the past two years?
Trading down is an option, but it takes two to tango. How about staying put for once? The Bills have only done this once during Beane's tenure — that was in 2019 when they drafted defensive tackle Ed Oliver with the ninth overall pick.
What follows below is a break down of each scenario, so let’s dive in!
Do Bills trade up, trade down, or stay put?
Brandon Beane’s history of first-round trades
This will be Beane’s seventh draft with the Bills. In his previous six drafts, Beane has made some sort of trade with a first-round pick in four of those drafts. Let’s review:
* indicates a trade made during the NFL Draft
2018
- The Bills at one point held the 21st (original pick) and 22nd overall pick (received in the 2017 NFL Draft trade with the Kansas City Chiefs to move down from pick 10 to pick 27).
- Traded Cordy Glenn, 2018 first-round pick (21st overall), and 2018 fifth-round pick (158th overall) to the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for 2018 first-round pick (12th overall) and 2018 six-round pick (187th overall).
- Traded 2018 first-round pick (12th overall), 2018 second-round pick (53rd overall), and 2018 second-round pick (56th overall) to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for 2018 first-round pick (7th overall — Josh Allen). *
- Traded 2018 first-round pick (22nd overall), 2018 third-round pick (65th overall), and 2018 fifth-round pick (154th overall) to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for 2018 first-round pick (16th overall — Tremaine Edmunds). *
2020
- Traded 2020 first-round pick (22nd overall), 2022 fifth-round pick (155th overall), and 2020 sixth-round pick (201st overall) to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for Stefon Diggs and 2020 seventh-round pick (239th overall — Dane Jackson).
2022
- Traded 2022 first-round pick (25th overall) and 2022 fourth-round pick (130th overall) to the Ravens in exchange for 2022 first-round pick (23rd overall — CB Kaiir Elam). *
2023
- Traded 2023 first-round pick (27th overall) and 2023 fourth-round pick (130th overall) to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for 2023 first-round pick (25th overall — TE Dalton Kincaid). *
2024 Round 1 trade-up scenarios
Scenario 1:
One of the big three wide receivers (Marvin Harrison Jr., Malik Nabers, Rome Odunze) falls to a spot the Bills are comfortable moving up to. For me, this spot is in the teens, but it’s doubtful that one of the three falls that far. So...
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