With many general managers and head coaches currently attending NFL pro days, they are there to evaluate potential players who could fill needed positions on their rosters. Still, there will be time to look at other prospects in the NFL Draft, which runs from April 23-25.
While the Buffalo Bills will still be focusing on addressing their main needs of wide receiver, edge, nose tackle, outside linebacker, and heck, maybe even a quarterback. They might shock some people with who they take with their first pick.
Four aggressive players Bills should address in NFL Draft
1. EDGE TJ Parker (Clemson)
While the Clemson Tigers had an underachieving 7-6 season by their standards, this didn't stop their streak of producing fine edge rushers to be drafted into the NFL, including one, TJ Parker.
Parker, at 6-foot-3, 265 pounds, has decent size for an edge rusher, but if the Bills drafted him, he would have to be an outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme. Last season with the Clemson Tigers, he had 18 solo tackles and five sacks while playing as a four-man front defensive end.
Parker fits the mold of current Bills outside linebacker Bradley Chubb. The 21-year-old is big, quick, and aggressive at getting to the quarterback, similar to Chubb.
The difference with Chubb is that he is more established, but is now on the wrong side of 32 and has a history of injuries.
2. DT Domonique Orange (Iowa State)
A few months ago, everybody was talking about Domonique Orange as a stud nose tackle for the Iowa State Cyclones. Now, they are talking about him as a stud nose tackle for the NFL.
Nicknamed "Big Citrus" for his size and last name, the 6-foot-4, 325-pound massive defensive tackle has quick feet and can shoot the gap to stop powerful NFL running backs.
He is also known as the "human roadblock" because many players have trouble getting past him. If drafted by the Bills, his size carries his position in such an organization, making the powerful athlete a physical asset to the team.
If you don't respect this guy's character and toughness as a player, it's time to go to sleep on these NFL running backs, who are built differently from the ones he faced in college.
3. OT Kaydn Proctor (Alabama)
While offensive tackle is not a dire need for the Bills, their more aggressive free-agent approach allows them to gamble on Kaydn Proctor at pick #26.
Proctor is a big giant at 6-foot-7, 366 pounds, and can drive through bigger, stronger NFL defensive linemen with his technique and aggression.
Being an offensive lineman from Alabama, his size gives him a bonus, as the Crimson Tide, even in the NIL era, still recruits wagons and dogs at the offensive line who end up going to the NFL.
The gamble with Proctor is that he may be someone they're taking who isn't ready to start for one or two years. Still, Dion Dawkins isn't getting any younger, so gambling on a massive tackle like Proctor now could help him watch and learn under Dawkins before the Bills eventually release him for cap casualties.
4. QB Drew Allar (Penn State)
As mentioned in a previous BuffaLowDown piece I wrote, the Bills should not wait around to find a potential quarterback of the future for an aging Josh Allen. Luckily, the Bills may have Allen's doppleganger in Penn State quarterback Drew Allar.
The 6-foot-5, 235-pound athlete has natural arm talent and a terrific football IQ, which he developed while at Penn State. Last year, he threw for 1,100 yards with eight touchdowns and three picks before going down with a season-ending injury.
Allar's best days are ahead of him, especially if the Bills draft him and he gets to learn under both Joe Brady and Allen. He will get to sit on the sidelines and learn from one of the league's best QBs.