Despite those moves, one of the hosts of “The Jeremy and Joe Show” said he didn’t believe the Bills didn’t invest enough to the position “relative to [their] peers.”
“I get it. I’m just like, let’s be realistic,” Beane replied to that notion. “Our job … it’s not fantasy football to trot out the best receivers. You got Josh Allen. First thing you got to do is protect him. You can’t have everything. You can’t have Pro Bowl wide receivers and have a Pro Bowl offensive line and an All-Pro quarterback and three great running backs. You’ve got to pick. Sure, I’d love to play fantasy football, but there’s one football, Jeremy, there’s one ball. You can’t give it to so many people.
“So, that’s where I’m like, I don’t understand this narrative. I felt it a little bit from a couple of the reporters in the thing, like our job is to score points. It doesn’t matter what receivers, what quarterback … if you score points at the level we scored, that is winning football.”
The Bills largely prioritized defense with their nine picks in the 2025 NFL Draft, selecting six players on that side of the ball. Their first five picks were used on defense, picking Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston with their first-round pick.
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While Buffalo went defense-heavy in the draft, Beane said that the Bills could’ve drafted a wide receiver with one of their top picks had the board fallen a certain way.
“If there was a guy when we picked at the first round that we’re like, ‘Yes, this guy’s dynamic, he’s going to fit here,’ we would’ve turned it in,” Beane said. “In the second round, we would’ve done it. We went up and got [defensive tackle T.J. Sanders]. We weren’t dodging receiver, we were going in, hey, we had the guys stacked where it was. I didn’t think it was the deepest class, I’ll say that, but yeah, if it would’ve worked out, I would’ve gladly done it. But I’m trying to make sure we got the best team, not the best receiving core.”
FOX Sports NFL Draft expert Rob Rang graded the Bills draft an “A,” making them just one of three teams to receive an “A” grade or better.
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