After swapping out Von Miller for Joey Bosa in free agency, the Buffalo Bills likely aren’t done adding at EDGE rusher, as the cupboard’s pretty bare behind Bosa, Greg Rousseau and AJ Epenesa.
The Bills hold 10 total selections in the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft, and analyst Chad Reuter of NFL.com predicts they’ll make a move on Day 1 for record-breaking EDGE Mike Green of Marshall.
Reuter has Buffalo sending No. 30 overall and two fourth-round picks to the Minnesota Vikings for the rights to take Marshall at pick No. 24 overall.
“Buffalo has already invested in the pass rush this offseason,” Reuter wrote, “signing Joey Bosa and Mike Hoecht and extending Gregory Rousseau. Then again, Bosa has a history of injury issues, Hoecht is facing a suspension for the season’s first six games, A.J. Epenesa is entering a contract year and the Bills still have not found a hybrid player to replace Von Miller — a vacancy that fits Green’s game.”
Green doesn’t come without his own baggage. He was a game-wrecker for Marshall in 2024, racking up 59 total pressures and an FBS-leading 17 sacks, which broke the Sun Belt’s single-season sacks record. His draft stock is all over the map, however, as he spent the majority of his press conference at the NFL Scouting Combine answering questions about past sexual assault allegations, and had to skip the testing in Indianapolis due to a hamstring injury.
Character concerns could be a deal-breaker for the Bills, who had to deal with Miller’s four-game suspension last season for ugly domestic assault allegations. That was a bad look for Buffalo and likely led to the team moving on, so GM Brandon Beane and Co. would have to be comfortable with Green’s character to justify trading two picks to go up and get him.
Reuter’s projections would be a dream for Minnesota, which in this hypothetical, moves back to pick No. 30 and still has a pair of impact safeties in Georgia’s Malaki Starks and South Carolina’s Nick Emmanwori on the board. The Vikings go with Emmanwori in Reuter’s proposal, but Starks’ versatility to both effectively drop back in coverage and step up into the box against the run would be an ideal fit for Brian Flores’ defense as well.