Pitarresi: Bills make hay with first-round picks

I’m a Buffalo Bills fan.

 

Which, lately, is a tough thing to be.

 

The Bills need a lot help. Maybe they’ll get it this season. They had four out of the first 51 picks in the first two rounds of the NFL draft today. That’s double what most teams got.

 

The Bills took Penn State defensive end Aaron Maybin, Louisville center Eric Wood, Oregon Jairus Byrd and Oregon State guad Andy Levitre. If those guys really around among the best 51 players available – or the best 102 – the Bills should be a better team next fall.

 

I don’t know all that much about any of these guys. I’ve seen Maybin and Wood play in person, and I can’t remember anything about them. Penn State crushed SU in a game that stopped being interesting in the first quarter, so Maybin was just one part of a mugging. And Wood is a center, so only his position coach and his mother know what he does.

 

I’m sure they’re all good players, though. I certainly hope so.