Just because the Bills made the trade for Stefon Diggs did not mean they should ignore the wide receiver position in the draft.

Thus, in the fourth round Saturday, they took Central Florida’s Gabriel Davis with the 128th overall pick.

Later, they would also pick Oregon State's Isaiah Hodgins in the sixth round.

“The high point catches are his specialty and he has sneaky good ability to get off the line of scrimmage with really fast hands and a strong upper body,” ESPN’s Louis Riddick said shortly after the Davis pick was made. “This is a great job by them to compliment the receivers they already have with a much different body type, and a guy who has a great catch radius who can produce a lot of big plays down the field.”

At 6-foot-2, 216 pounds, Davis becomes the second-biggest receiver on the team behind only 6-3, 225-pound Duke Williams.

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General manager Brandon Beane said Friday night that the big run on wide receivers leading up to the 54th overall pick — 11 were selected in the first 49 picks — pretty much knocked the Bills out of that market at that point. Thus, he pivoted to defensive end A.J. Epenesa.

And in the third round, taking running back Zack Moss was the greater need than any receiver who was available at the No. 86 pick. But in the fourth round, Davis fit the value range quite nicely.

“There was a run and we had some guys that would have been in the mix there, but they went,” Beane said of the receivers who he was targeting in the second round. “And so we weren't going to dip down. I would have lost the bet (Friday), I would have thought there would have been a wide receiver that we would have still had a second-round grade on, but there wasn’t.”

Davis will have a great chance to work his way into the No. 4 spot on the depth chart behind Diggs, Cole Beasley and John Brown, and he certainly doesn’t seem to lack confidence regarding that endeavor.

“I’m a big, physical, smart receiver, can do it all, versatile and can make big plays,” he said via Zoom Saturday. “There’s a lot of great receivers on the team, a lot of good competition, the receiver room seems like it’s going to be great. I can’t wait for the next four years to see what I’ll be doing for the Buffalo Bills.

At UCF, Davis started 37 of 38 games and caught 152 passes for 2,447 yards and 23 TDs for an impressive 16.1 yards per catch average. The 23 TDs rank second in school history and his receiving yardage total is seventh.

NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein said of Davis, “Big target with outstanding 2019 production in an offense that created favorable big-play opportunities. Davis is a sideline threat with a good feel for creating space short and long through hand fighting. His build-up speed, ball-tracking and high-point talent can alter the success rate of deep throws for quarterbacks, but sluggish release quickness and predictable route usage are concerning. His size and downfield talent could push him up the board, but he won't get easy looks in the pros and may need more work and development than the 2019 production might indicate.”

Davis said he had plenty of contact with the Bills before and after the Combine, and he thought it was cool that he ended up with them.

“They loved me, they showed a lot of interest, so I’m happy to be with a team that actually knew me at the beginning and picked me in the draft,” he said.

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