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"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections NewsNotesOpinionAnalysisDiscussionPodcastNFL DraftSalary CapOpinionBuffalo Bills NFL Draft Coverage2019 NFL Draft pick Ed Oliver has star potential for Buffalo BillsNew Color Rush Cody Ford Jersey ,65commentsThe Bills got a top-tier defensive playmaker with their first-round pick.EDTShareTweetShareShare2019 NFL Draft pick Ed Oliver has star potential for Buffalo BillsEd Oliver, the devastator, the Tasmanian devil, is now a Buffalo Bill. A former five-star recruit and three-time All-American now heads to Buffalo, as the final piece in Sean McDermott’s defensive puzzle. He’s primed to be a star.The Buffalo Bills had a major need for a dynamic defensive tackle following the retirement of Kyle Williams. After the free-agent signings phased out, the Bills were left with five defensive tackles on the roster. Those five players combined for only 45 tackles and one sack in 2018. Oliver will single-handedly transform that group. As an 18 year old, Oliver notched an outstanding 65 tackles, 22 TFLs, and five sacks. At 19 years old, he won the Outland trophy, presented to the nation’s best interior lineman. At 20 years old, only playing in eight games due to injury, Oliver still had 54 tackles Youth Cody Ford Jersey , 14.5 TFLs, and three sacks.Oliver is a verified athletic freak. The 6’2” 287-lb defensive tackle jumped ten feet, benched 225 lbs 32 times, and ran the short shuttle faster than most tight ends. He’s been pegged as a future top-ten pick since before he started college, and unlike many top high-school recruits, he showed that potential throughout his young career.Even while playing nose tackle, Oliver was an incredible disruptor for the Houston Cougars. His strength, given his size, is incredible—he can hold his own against double teams. He ducks, dives, and dodges around blocks, and while his pass rushing portfolio is still developing, that just raises his ceiling.NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported on-air that the Bills had been willing to trade up Womens Cody Ford Jersey , possibly as high as the third pick, for Oliver, per his league sources. That the Bills managed to stand pat at the ninth pick and take Oliver without sacrificing any extra value underlines another fantastic (lack of) maneuver by Brandon Beane.Oliver is a one-man wrecking crew in the defensive interior. Overlook him at your own risk. For a defense that needed chaos creators above all else, Oliver is exactly what the doctor ordered. Well done, Buffalo Bills. LeSean McCoy is a fierce competitor, and after doing everything he could to return to the field in time for the Buffalo Bills’ Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots, McCoy expressed his frustrations over his lack of production in Buffalo’s anemic offense. After ripping off a 12-yard run out of the Wildcat on Buffalo’s first offensive play of the game, Shady’s next 11 runs gained a grand total of one yard, as every time McCoy tried to bounce a run outside, the Patriots were there to deny him. McCoy did have success as a passing weapon out of the backfield, hauling in six passes (eight targets) for 82 yards, including a nice 24-yard catch. But McCoy will be the first to admit his ground game seems stuck in neutral at the halfway point. McCoy, Buffalo’s Pro Bowl running back Authentic Cody Ford Jersey , has run the ball 75 times for 257 yards, an average of 3.4 yards per rush. He has yet to score a touchdown (rushing or receiving), and is on pace for by far the worst statistical season of his career. “In 10 years, I’ve had bad games, but just the flow, the season, everything is just bad,” McCoy said following Monday night’s loss, Buffalo’s fourth time in six losses scoring fewer than seven points. “The hard work that we put in, the hard work I’ve put in my whole life, my whole career, for it to happen like this every game, it’s tough. You see the defense out there just grinding. So it is frustrating.”If McCoy was going to get on track against any opponent Cody Ford Jersey Boys , it figured to be the Patriots. Over his last five games vs. New England, Shady had rushed for at least 70 yards in every game. On Monday night, despite the Bills breaking out the Wildcat and getting McCoy the ball on direct snaps, he never came close to 70 yards. “You put a lot of work and effort into your craft, your job and the results and outcomes are like the same, so it’s frustrating,” McCoy said. “I don’t know. I didn’t play good, so I guess. I thought it would be a better game running-wise. I usually run the ball good on them.”McCoy knows he can still be the same featured back who just last year paced the Bills with 1,138 rushing yards and 448 receiving yards. But this year, playing on an offense with arguably the worst quarterback play in the league, and on a line that lost Eric Wood, Richie Incognito, and Cordy Glenn from last year Infant Cody Ford Jersey , McCoy is suffering through a historically bad season. “I still can play. I still can play. Defenses know I still can play. You see the way they approach me when I’m in the game,” McCoy said when asked if he felt he had lost a step or two as Buffalo’s primary offensive play maker. There was rampant speculation that McCoy could be traded on Tuesday, but the 4 p.m. Eastern trade deadline came and went with McCoy still a member of the Bills. “This is my team, . . . I’m happy here,” he said after the Monday night loss. “But it doesn’t matter whether I was here or anywhere else, playing a season like this, you would be mad. I don’t think it’s a matter of where I’m at. It’s just what’s been taking place and how things are going offensively. . . .What do I got, 200 yards? In the [eighth game]? That’s never happened to me. Yeah, it’s different. It’s a different season. I’m 30 years old, playing since when I’ve been in high school. This stuff [has] never happened to me. It is tough.”