{"id":654187,"date":"2026-05-07T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:43:09","slug":"discussion-which-bills-day-3-pick-will-have-the-best-nfl-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654187\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion: Which Bills Day 3 pick will have the best NFL career?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s one thing indisputable about Buffalo Bills<\/a> president of football operations\/general manager Brandon Beane \u2014 he has a fantastic track record with Day 3 draft picks.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s run through notable the Round 4 \u2013 Round 7 selections Beane has made as the guy calling the shots on draft weekend for the Bills since 2018.<\/p>\n

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Taron Johnson<\/a>, Wyatt Teller<\/a>, Gabe Davis<\/a>, Tyler Bass<\/a>, Dane Jackson<\/a>, Christian Benford<\/a>, Khalil Shakir<\/a>, Damar Hamlin<\/a>, Deone Walker<\/a>, Jackson Hawes<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite the collection of serviceable spot-starters to foundational pieces of Buffalo\u2019s roster all found on the final day of the draft in which the overwhelming majority of players typically don\u2019t amount to much in the NFL.<\/p>\n

The Bills\u2019 relative massive success likely led to this findings outlined in this video<\/p>\n

For (the likely small amount of) Day 3 lovers like myself, the Bills\u2019 work on Saturday each draft during the Beane era has been incredibly impressive to observe from afar, and in the 2026 draft, eight of Buffalo\u2019s 10 overall selections came on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Today, I\u2019m asking this:<\/p>\n

Which Bills Day 3 pick will ultimately have the best NFL career?<\/p>\n

As a refresher on your eight choices:<\/p>\n

Round 4 \u2013 OL Jude Bowry<\/p>\n

Round 4 \u2013 WR Skyler Bell<\/p>\n

Round 4 \u2013 LB Kaleb Elarms-Orr<\/p>\n

Round 5 \u2013 DB Jalon Kilgore<\/p>\n

Round 5 \u2013 DT Zane<\/a> Durant<\/p>\n

Round 7 \u2013 CB Toriano Pride Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Round 7 \u2013 P Tommy Doman<\/p>\n

Round 7 \u2013 OG Ar\u2019maj Reed-Adams<\/p>\n

My answer: At this juncture, it\u2019s not only about my pre-draft evaluation of a prospect\u2026 team fit of course now must be considered. However, this is a scenario in which my scouting grade and the schematic fit are both extraordinarily encouraging.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going with LB Kaleb Elarms-Orr. As I referenced my rookie profile last week, I had a Top 20 overall grade on Elarms-Orr. He was an emphatic box-checking prospect for me. And even though he\u2019s staring at two starters in front of him at inside linebacker, don\u2019t be surprised if Jim Leonard deploys more of a matchup or down-and-distance specific rotation at that position.<\/p>\n

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Elarms-Orr is a rocket-fueled athlete to the football, understands leverage\/positioning in coverage, and is an trustworthy tackles. There\u2019s plenty of blitzing utility to his game as well.<\/p>\n

I see him eventually stepping into a full-time role in Buffalo \u2014 sooner than later \u2014 as a modern-day, three-down linebacker who can thrive as a QB spy when he\u2019s not making plays in coverage or ranging to wrap up a ball-carrier close to (or behind) the line of scrimmage.<\/p>\n

(along with my \u201cofficial\u201d selection here, I\u2019ll also write \u2014 I believe Bell and Kilgore are going to be darn good, too)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s one thing indisputable about Buffalo Bills president of football operations\/general manager Brandon Beane \u2014 he has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[242517,176691,1748,49,48,123438,528,15884,57592,242518,97020,164206,172595,72534,242516,29891,514,242515,82,75120,3034,544,46804,236501,242519,183,103105,242520],"class_list":["post-654187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-amon-g-carter-stadium","tag-brandon-beane","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christian-benford","tag-colorado-buffaloes","tag-damar-hamlin","tag-dane-jackson","tag-defensive-play","tag-deone-walker","tag-fort-worth","tag-gabe-davis","tag-jackson-hawes","tag-kaleb-elarms-orr","tag-khalil-shakir","tag-nfl","tag-raymond-carlin","tag-sports","tag-taron-johnson","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-texas","tag-the-bills","tag-toriano-pride-jr","tag-tyler-bass","tag-usa","tag-wyatt-teller","tag-zane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654187","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=654187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}