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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane was sold on wide receiver Amari Cooper almost 10 years ago.
In 2015, when Beane was the assistant general manager at Carolina, he and then-Panthers receiving coach Ricky Proehl went on a predraft visit to see Cooper at Alabama. The two took him out to dinner and worked him out the next day.
Cooper's reserved personality resulted in Beane and Proehl leaving the dinner thinking, 'Man, he didn't like us' -- yet, that wasn't the case. The next day, Cooper met them bright and early, directed them where to park and greeted them with tape.