The Buffalo Bills traded up on Thursday night to draft Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen with the No. 7 overall pick. Allen was long believed to possibly be the No. 1 overall pick, and as he began falling, the Bills swooped in to pick him up.
The Bills’ GM explained vetting Josh Allen after those old tweets came to light
The QB had a pre-draft surprise.
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After the selection, Bills general manager Brandon Beane addressed Allen’s character after racist tweets from the past surfaced hours before the draft:
On the surface, it’s easy to see why there would be reaction to Buscaglia’s first tweet. Allen has been one of the most polarizing draftees in recent memory, especially for somebody who was expected at one point to be the No. 1 overall pick.
“We don’t condone anything,” Beane said, per WGR 550’s Sal Capaccio. “We did our due diligence, spoke to him and his coach again ... he’s going to come in here and own it and has to earn the trust of the fans or organization.”
Now, if he had been looking for negative things people had to say about Allen in general...
- “A handful of tweets from 2012 and 2013, when Allen was a high school student, contained racist language.”
- “Like Darnold, Josh Allen was only a two-year starter in college. But Allen’s statistics are horrifying compared to Darnold’s.”
- “Josh Allen was hyped for a full year before the 2018 NFL Draft as a potential No. 1 pick, and he went No. 7 to the Bills, all to the bafflement of pretty much everyone not employed by the league.”
- “There are also plenty of reasons not to draft Allen in the first two rounds or so, including his completely mediocre stats and his alarming number of not-so-nice throws.”
- “Josh Allen is a car bought by someone who does not buy cars often.”
- “Josh Allen is a C student with two excellent test scores.” (LMAOOOOOOOOO)
- “Josh Allen is Jamarcus Russell.”
- “If we bypass Darnold, Mayfield, and *gulp* even Rosen for an oft-injured *worse* Derek Anderson clone, we are the dumbest franchise in sports.”
- “Well, if you ask him, he’s more like Aaron Rodgers. Sure, guy. That’s like the intramural hoops all-star who thinks he can take on Collin Sexton.”
- “May have too much hero in his blood”
... he would’ve found a lot.
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