2011 NFL Draft: Will the Buffalo Bills Draft Blaine Gabbert or Pass on Him?

April 15, 2011   ·   Dan Van Wie   ·   Jump to comments

For the past month, we keep hearing the results of mock draft experts that the Buffalo Bills are going to be drafting either Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus or Texas A&M linebacker Von Miller. Both of those options are something that I completely endorse.
But why is it, that with less than two weeks to go before the draft, I have this uneasy feeling that the Bills will be drafting Blaine Gabbert, the talented Missouri quarterback? In a recent mock draft conducted by SI.com's Don Banks, he had Gabbert going to the Bills with the third overall pick.
Banks' rationale was as follows: "Texas A&M outside linebacker Von Miller seems to have emerged as the consensus choice for the Bills in NFL mockdom, but I still see Buffalo reasoning that it's the right year and the right draft slot to take a franchise quarterback. You could take Gabbert and still play Ryan Fitzpatrick most of this season, following the Jon Kitna/Carson Palmer model in Cincinnati, circa 2003....

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