Bills news, notes from NFL draft combine- Potential options at safety
INDIANAPOLIS - When the Buffalo Bills picked cornerback Christian Benford in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft, barely a whisper could be heard.
For a team that went into 2022 as a viable Super Bowl contender, even the betting favorite in some circles, no one envisioned a sixth-round pick out of Villanova having a realistic chance of contributing much to the defense.
However, Benford came to Buffalo and opened the collective eyes of the defensive coaching staff in the offseason program, followed that up with a solid training camp, and come opening night in Los Angeles, Benford was one of the starting cornerbacks at SoFi Stadium while first-round pick Kaiir Elam stood on the sideline.
Logically, it tracks that Tre’Davious White and Elam - who came on at the end of his rookie season, partially because he wasn’t sharing snaps with Benford - will be the starters at cornerback. And the Bills will probably try to re-sign Dane Jackson as a restricted free agent, though it’s possible they could lose him.
If Jackson returns, that makes for a crowded situation at boundary cornerback, so moving Benford might make sense.
INDIANAPOLIS - When the Buffalo Bills picked cornerback Christian Benford in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft, barely a whisper could be heard.
For a team that went into 2022 as a viable Super Bowl contender, even the betting favorite in some circles, no one envisioned a sixth-round pick out of Villanova having a realistic chance of contributing much to the defense.
However, Benford came to Buffalo and opened the collective eyes of the defensive coaching staff in the offseason program, followed that up with a solid training camp, and come opening night in Los Angeles, Benford was one of the starting cornerbacks at SoFi Stadium while first-round pick Kaiir Elam stood on the sideline.
Logically, it tracks that Tre’Davious White and Elam - who came on at the end of his rookie season, partially because he wasn’t sharing snaps with Benford - will be the starters at cornerback. And the Bills will probably try to re-sign Dane Jackson as a restricted free agent, though it’s possible they could lose him.
If Jackson returns, that makes for a crowded situation at boundary cornerback, so moving Benford might make sense.
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