Buffalo Rumblings
A comprehensive look at what more than two-dozen national analysts had to say about the Bills’ 2025 rookie class.
The Buffalo Bills welcomed nine rookies from the 2025 NFL Draft class to One Bills Drive this week, with general manager Brandon Beane placing heavy emphasis on defense in the wake of last season’s performance. One Bills Drive’s preferred plan in Round 1 was to sit and let the board fall to them, which allowed cornerback Maxwell Hairston to land with Buffalo at pick 30.
After selecting Hairston, the Bills continued prioritizing defense with four additional picks on that side of the ball between Rounds 2 and 5. With their remaining four draft picks, Buffalo made moves to add three players on offense and one additional defensive back.
Buffalo Bills 2025 NFL Draft full results:
With a few days between us and the grand spectacle that is any NFL draft, that means plenty of football outlets have handed out snap-judgement grades for the Bills (and every other team’s) latest rookie NFL draft class.
René Bugner, a German NFL fan, took things quite a few steps further in evaluating NFL draft evaluators, providing a total team grade based on 24 of the evaluators discussed below. He then sorted his chart and each evaluation by GPA. It’s a fascinating 30,000-foot view of this year’s crop of draft evaluations, and reveals which analysts are the tougher graders.
So how did the Buffalo Bills fare, overall, in this exercise? According to Bugner’s work, the Bills finished tied at 17 out of 32 teams, with a 3.05 GPA.
Bugner’s substack entry goes into more detail about this year’s draft class grades, which you can check out here.
With that in mind, let’s dive in and take a look at what those in the media have to say about the work that Beane and company did during the draft.
We begin with former Buffalo Rumblings editor in chief, Chris Trapasso...
Buffalo Bills’ overall draft grade: B+
Trapasso understands the offense wasn’t going to be a priority with so many starting positions locked up:
“The overwhelming majority of job openings on this Bills team are on the defensive side of the ball, and general manager Brandon Beane added some candidates for said openings with a defensive-laiden [sp] draft. Hairston raises the ceiling of the cornerback room — which was very...
