What in the world are the Buffalo Bills thinking?

I don't really know what to say right now.  The Buffalo Bills really traded the No. 28 pick to the Kansas City Chiefs, who then took Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who enters the NFL as one of the fastest players the league after breaking the NFL Combine record with a 4.21 second 40-yard dash.  […]

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I don't really know what to say right now. 

The Buffalo Bills really traded the No. 28 pick to the Kansas City Chiefs, who then took Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who enters the NFL as one of the fastest players the league after breaking the NFL Combine record with a 4.21 second 40-yard dash. 

Even if the Bills weren't going to take Worthy, why would they actively help the Chiefs get a guy they clearly wanted? Why would they let Andy Reid get his hands on that kind of speed? Have they not learned their lesson from the last time they made a first-round trade with the Chiefs? The last time they made such a move, Kansas City drafted a guy named Patrick Mahomes. Oops.

If anyone in the NFL will find a way to make that trade haunt the Bills, it's Andy Reid and Mahomes. What are we going to say if and when Worthy has a monster performance against Buffalo in the playoffs and helps the Chiefs beat them once again? And what if eh turns out to be as good as Kansas City hopes, and he becomes the ultimate Bills killer and prevents them from reaching a Super Bowl? What then?

And not only did the Bills trade down to No. 32, they traded again and ended the night without making a pick in the first round. They traded the No. 32 pick to the Panthers, as well as pick No. 200 in exchange for the No. 33 and No. 141 picks. Carolina took wide receiver Xavier Legette. 

The Bills still have options, most notably A.D. Mitchell out of Texas who slipped out of the first round. Other available receivers include Keon Coleman, Ladd McConkey, and Roman Wilson. If anything, Buffalo should have made a massive leap forward for someone like a Rome Odunze or Brian Thomas Jr. 

Regardless, the Bills actively helped the Chiefs get a player they wanted, and that player is the fastest player in the history of the NFL Combine- that is an unquestionably bad decision, and makes them without a doubt one of the biggest losers of night one.

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