Buffalo Bills: History of drafting quarterbacks in the first round

Heading into this draft, the Bills are once again appearing to make the decision to draft a QB no matter what. This draft class hopefully will be as deep as the 1983 class, but that’s unlikely.

The obvious lesson from the past is to not draft a quarterback with initials for a first name. The other lesson is that waiting for “your” guy typically doesn’t work. There are smart people in the room who know when to reach and when not to during the draft. Yet this team has been so poor at QB, they can’t wait anymore.

There is a zero percent chance the Bills scouting department, coaches and front office like multiple QBs equally. The definition of insanity is to try the same thing multiple times and expect different results. Selecting your third or fourth choice for a franchise just because he’s a quarterback won’t work, regardless of draft number.

To this writer, it doesn’t matter if they trade all the way up to select a QB that nobody is talking about. They have conviction in somebody, and that should be enough. The motto is to “Trust the Process,” and I do trust their evaluations based on past results thus far.

Don’t take Baker Mayfield just because he’s there at No. 12 and you need a QB. Take whomever it is because that’s the franchise from the start you identified. If the Bills stay at No. 12 and still select a QB, there should be gasps and cheers heard around all of Western New York originating from the Bills draft room on every pick before.

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If there isn’t, then they took a QB just to take one. And just like in previous two instances where that happened, the results may not be promising.