The combined efforts of former GM Buddy Nix and current GM Doug Whaley over the last four years has helped to build Buffalo’s roster into one of the most talented in the NFL. It hasn’t fully paid off in the win column just yet, but it has put Whaley in an enviable position despite the fact that he doesn’t have a first-round pick for the 2015 NFL draft.
The vast majority of NFL personnel executives subscribe to the draft approach of taking the best player on the board. Some general managers however, are swayed from that philosophy at times by positional need or a specific prospect they covet.