{"id":631817,"date":"2026-04-27T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:59:10","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-grading-bills-pick-of-toriano-pride-jr-at-no-220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631817\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Grading Bills’ pick of Toriano Pride Jr. at No. 220"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> added to their secondary by selecting Missouri cornerback Toriano Pride Jr.<\/a> with the 220th overall pick in the seventh round.<\/p>\n

It was the third defensive back taken by the Bills<\/a> in the 2026 draft (CB Davison Igbinosun<\/a> at pick No. 62, S Jalon Kilgore at pick No. 167).<\/p>\n

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Pride Jr. is a lightning-fast corner who ran a 4.32 40-yard dash at the combine and held his own in the SEC despite being a bit undersized for the position (5-10, 185). The senior recorded two interceptions with one being returned for a touchdown in each of his last two seasons.<\/p>\n

He has great recovery speed and plays the deep ball well. He is also willing to come downhill in run support.<\/p>\n

Bottom line<\/p>\n

The Bills and general manager Brandon Beane are continuing to revamp and retool the secondary for first-year defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard<\/a>. Pride Jr. has a clear path to a roster spot right now as a cornerback after the departures of Tre’Davious White, Taron Johnson<\/a> and Dane Jackson<\/a>, and also the ongoing medical concerns of Dorian Strong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Projected as a seventh-round pick, Pride Jr. has the athletic upside to be a diamond in the rough and is more than worth the seventh-round dart-throw.<\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: 2026 NFL Draft: Grading Bills’ pick of Toriano Pride Jr. at No. 220<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills added to their secondary by selecting Missouri cornerback Toriano Pride Jr. with the 220th overall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1748,49,48,57592,190349,236503,183897,514,236502,82,75120,236501],"class_list":["post-631817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dane-jackson","tag-davison-igbinosun","tag-dorian-strong","tag-jim-leonhard","tag-nfl","tag-s-jalon-kilgore","tag-sports","tag-taron-johnson","tag-toriano-pride-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}