Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane did what he always does in the NFL Draft on Thursday night - he followed his board, Matt Parrino of New York Upstate reports.

The board fell in a way that kept the usually aggressive Beane from trading up to get the receiver that Bills fans have been clamoring for all offseason. As numerous reports indicated before the draft, he didn’t call teams in the Top 10 to check on the possibility of trading up. In fact, he didn’t make a single call to a team to try to trade up.

So when pick no. 28 arrived, several teams were looking to move up and the pool of players that Beane and the Bills had a first-round grade on were all gone.

The Kansas City Chiefs were the team offering the most for the Bills’ pick. Beane lost a third-round pick in the Rasul Douglas trade last season, and KC was offering their third-rounder in the deal. A few minutes later, Beane pulled the trigger and completely moved out of the first round in a deal with the Carolina Panthers.

When Bills fans realized the Chiefs made the deal to get speedy Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, panic set in. Did Beane allow Andy Reid to get a new shiny toy, who NBC Sports’ Chris Simms described as “a guy with 3 rockets up his ass?”

So when pick no. 28 arrived, several teams were looking to move up and the pool of players that Beane and the Bills had a first-round grade on were all gone.

The Kansas City Chiefs were the team offering the most for the Bills’ pick. Beane lost a third-round pick in the Rasul Douglas trade last season, and KC was offering their third-rounder in the deal. A few minutes later, Beane pulled the trigger and completely moved out of the first round in a deal with the Carolina Panthers.

When Bills fans realized the Chiefs made the deal to get speedy Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, panic set in. Did Beane allow Andy Reid to get a new shiny toy, who NBC Sports’ Chris Simms described as “a guy with 3 rockets up his ass?”

“I could see them taking a receiver but you don’t truly know. ... But where they were moving from, I don’t think it mattered to us who they were picking,” Beane said. “Now we’ve got the two 2s, a 3, a 4 and four 5s. I think that gives us a chance to fill some roles or use ammo to move around again, depending on how the board falls.”

Beane never ruled out moving up for a player he liked, but he said he wasn’t prepared to give up the team’s second-round pick to do it.

“If we had to go far enough to do that then now you’re picking at whatever pick that is in the first. You’re going all the way to 128 or something like that,” Beane said. “We think that there is good value coming up tomorrow and ... We put a lot of time and effort into the board, and we think it’s falling kind of similar to kind of how we thought. ... One of the things we said was, if there’s an opportunity to get back into the third, we do believe there would be some value or at least the value of that pick if we wanted to move around.”

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