2016 NFL Mock Draft: AFC East
By jonfox
Instead of a traditional 2016 mock draft, let’s look at the top three picks for each club as if the author was the GM for each team in the NFL. Today: it’s time to discuss the AFC East. One last note before we begin: players can be picked more than once but only outside of the division. So, look at this as a mock draft in and of each division.
Buffalo Bills
1. Noah Spence, LB Eastern Kentucky
2. Travin Dural, WR LSU
3. Brandon Shell, OL South Carolina
The Bills’ approach to the draft should be about finding guys who fill those secondary needs so that they can let their top players grow into their roles.
Spence has his issues, but he has talent. In Ryan’s system, he’ll be asked to take advantage of those holes opened up by Dareus.
Shell and Dural are big program guys who can play a specific role. Shell is a RT or LG in the NFL that struggled against faster rushers. Dural is a redzone/possession guy, but they need that to go with Watkins.
Miami Dolphins
1. Vernon Hargreaves III, CB Florida
2. Carl Lawson, DE Auburn
3. Greg Pyke, OL UGA
Miami is akin to a college program that’s in a tailspin: they need talent, talent and more talent. If for no other reason, they need this so that they can find out what they truly have in Tannehill.
Hargreaves is worth tanking for. He’s a blue chip defensive prospect in a draft that doesn’t have many of them. He could be a lock down CB that becomes Revis 2.0
Lawson has missed a ton of time due to injury, but he was as valuable to the Auburn run in 2013 as any single player was. You might need to work him in slowly but he has top 15 talent.
Pyke, as has been discussed before, could be a quietly solid OG prospect.