The NFL Draft isn’t strictly about the incoming rookie class to every team. It’s also about how the rookie class impacts the rest of the roster. And the newcomers also impact the rest of the roster, especially considering they’re (typically) the youngest and least-expensive assets on the team.

Let’s look at how the veterans will be affected by the 10 draft picks the Buffalo Bills made in the 2026 NFL Draft by choosing winners and losers.

Winners

Buffalo’s running back room

No one expected the Bills to prioritize running back in the 2026 draft… then again, team’s draft...

There’s one thing indisputable about Buffalo Bills president of football operations/general manager Brandon Beane — he has a fantastic track record with Day 3 draft picks.

Let’s run through notable the Round 4 – Round 7 selections Beane has made as the guy calling the shots on draft weekend for the Bills since 2018.

Taron Johnson, Wyatt Teller, Gabe Davis, Tyler Bass, Dane Jackson, Christian Benford, Khalil Shakir, Damar Hamlin, Deone Walker, Jackson Hawes

That’s quite the collection of serviceable spot-starters to foundational pieces of Buffalo’s roster all found on the final day of the draft in which the overwhelming...

The Miami Dolphins had a calamitous 2025, as the Tua Tagovailoa-Mike McDaniel partnership completely eroded, and both are now employed by new teams.

It’s a new era for the Dolphins, and for a club at the ground floor of the rebuilding process, they correctly made a boatload of picks in the draft — one of the few teams that made than the Bills’ 10 selections.

Here’s a rundown of their 2026 rookie class.

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New England Patriots

New York Jets

Kadyn Proctor, OT, Alabama

As a former top recruit in the country, with...

The Buffalo Bills have done nothing and said nothing since Joe Brady was hired to suggest they want or plan to trade polarizing wide receiver Keon Coleman, but that hasn’t stopped the third-year receiver from being discussed as a trade possibility.

TurfShowTimes, the fantastic SB Nation Los Angeles Rams site, recently featured Coleman in its “trade targets” series, and posed the question “Coleman has yet to break out in Buffalo, but could he change that in Hollywood?”

The piece itself is a fine breakdown of Coleman’s first two seasons in Buffalo along with everything that transpired in the media regarding...

The Buffalo Bills have done nothing and said nothing since Joe Brady was hired to suggest they want or plan to trade polarizing wide receiver Keon Coleman, but that hasn’t stopped the third-year receiver from being discussed as a trade possibility.

TurfShowTimes, the fantastic SB Nation Los Angeles Rams site, recently featured Coleman in its “trade targets” series, and posed the question “Coleman has yet to break out in Buffalo, but could he change that in Hollywood?”

The piece itself is a fine breakdown of Coleman’s first two seasons in Buffalo along with everything that transpired in the media regarding...

The Minnesota Vikings next GM might be currently working for the Buffalo Bills.

Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday morning that Minnesota has requested a GM interview with Gray, who’s been the Bills assistant GM since May 2025 after spending three years as Buffalo’s director of player personnel.

For Gray, there’s a clear Vikings connection. He spent 11 years in Minnesota as a scout before being hired by the Bills in 2017 as the team’s director of college scouting.

Gray will be the first interview in the Vikings’ hunt for a new GM. Interim Rob Brzezinski is also considered a candidate.

This...

The New York Jets were really, really bad in 2025 and finished with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. Second-year GM Darren Mougey has started his tenure in East Rutherford, New Jersey with darn-good process, trading away the likes of Sauce Gardner, Quinnen Williams, and Jermaine Johnson for draft picks — in the case of Johnson, for nose tackle T’Vondre Sweat — and made three first-round picks in this year’s draft.

Here’s a rundown of their 2026 rookie class.

Here’s the New England Patriots version of this article

David Bailey, EDGE, Jets

The Jets had a...

The New England Patriots snapped the Buffalo Bills’ five-year streak of winning the AFC East last season and ultimately advanced to the Super Bowl before being trounced by the Seattle Seahawks in a game that was not as close as the 29-13 score.

Like the Bills, New England prioritized quantity with their 2026 draft class, ultimately making nine selections. The Patriots needed edge-rushing talent on defense and blocking help for Drake Maye.

Here’s a rundown of their 2026 draft class.

Caleb Lomu, OT, Utah

Lomu doesn’t have the length issues of his new offensive tackle contemporary Will Campbell, and while...

Buffalo Bills running back James Cook is the NFL’s reigning rushing champ, and we’ve hardly spent any time this offseason on his future in Joe Brady’s offense as one of the league’s most efficient ground-game workhorses.

Frankly, there’s essentially been no conversation on Buffalo’s running back room over the past few months, and it’s the team’s only completely unchanged position group from a season ago — no adds, no subtractions (if we’re not counting fullback Reggie Gilliam’s departure eastward).

In 2025, as the Bills passing offense needed to exert considerable effort to even approach productivity of previous seasons in the...

The National Football League releases its regular season schedule for teams in mid-May. Until we get there, analysts like to break down the strength of schedule for teams heading into the season. Now usually, strength of schedule is determined by the record of the team from the previous season. As you can probably guess, that’s not a good way of doing so because it does not take into account offseason changes made by all teams around the league.

One analyst goes a different route. Warren Sharp takes into account the projected wins total for all 32 teams set by Vegas...

The Buffalo Bills are about to turn the page to a brand-new chapter in 2026… and it comes with a new stadium, a new head coach, and a fresh new energy. The only thing left pending is the new schedule.
Here’s a look at what we know ahead of the 2026 schedule release.

1. When will the schedule be released?

The NFL hasn’t officially announced the 2026 schedule release date yet, but the pattern is steady.

Recent releases:

• 2025: Wednesday May 14, at 8:00 p.m.
• 2024: Wednesday May 15, at 8:00 p.m.
• 2023: Thursday May 11, at...

Brandon Beane isn’t going to do it.

General Manager and President of Football Operations Brandon Beane is approaching his nine-year anniversary with the Buffalo Bills. What feels like a lifetime in NFL time has brought with it one of the most successful runs in terms of win/loss record of any team in professional sports. And through most of those nine years, Beane has been working with Sean McDermott. Given the long-term relationship between the two of them (this period in Bills history even being referred to as “The McBeane Era”), one would be forgiven for being unable to clearly separate...