Mistakes were made. Before general manager Brandon Beane took over things with the Buffalo Bills, every draft was akin to tiptoeing in a minefield. It seemed as though the team always managed to pick the one player out of 10 drafted around him who didn't have a Hall of Fame career — or Buffalo traded up for player who was supposed to be generational but never quite met the hype.
Just over a day until the 2025 NFL Draft, why not revisit some of those 21st century mistakes? There are of course many options for this list, but I’ve narrowed it down to five and kept it to players taken in the first round — even though the 2011 trade up for wide receiver T.