The Buffalo Bills have been fortunate that their first-round pick in 2018 has worked out beautifully, as Josh Allen is fresh off an MVP-winning season. Sure the Bills didn't quite reach their goal of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy but as long as Allen is in a Bills uniform, Buffalo has a shot to win it all.
The same has not been true for the rest of the division, at least not in recent years. The Dolphins can win games with Tua Tagovailoa but not against good teams, the Patriots had some bad quarterback years but might look to have that solved with Drake Maye, and the Jets are... well, the Jets.
Speaking of the Jets, ESPN's Mel Kiper had them landing Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders in his latest mock draft. Kiper didn't have the Jets trading up to get Sanders but instead had the Buffs quarterback fall to the seventh pick in the draft where New York snatched him up.
Mel Kiper's latest mock draft has Shedeur Sanders joining the AFC East
It wouldn't be the first time a rookie quarterback joined the AFC East with the hopes of dethroning the Bills for the division title. Just last year the Patriots drafted Drake Maye third overall, and, unfortunately, so far, the pick looks to be a good one but one year is a small sample size.
The Jets are no strangers to drafting quarterbacks in the first round and after the Aaron Rodgers experiment failed epically, no one would be surprised to see New York try to nab one of the two prospects considered to be the best in this year's draft.
Sanders has quite the personality so it'd be easy for Bills fans to root against him if he were donning the ugly green and white uniform. While Sanders could make the Jets competitive, haven't we also been saying that about their quarterbacks for the last few decades and nothing has panned out? We can only hope that pattern would continue here.