Bills sign 2 more LB Rivers and CB Graham.

[eee1776]

Report filed with ESPN say that the Bills have signed LB Keith Rivers 2 years 5 million and CB Corey Graham 4 years 16 million.

[bcw]

Decent signings.

 

Graham has starting experience and made the pro bowl for special teams.

 

Rivers was a high draft pick who never lived up to expectations. He'll only be asked to be a 2 down player and should have no problem being an improvement over Bradham and Moats.

 

What doesn't really fit is that Rivers is an OLB and I was expecting Kiko from MLB to OLB. Is that plan now thrown out or do Rivers and Lawson fight it out for one spot?

Edited March 12, 2014 by bcw

[Victor7]

Is Rivers the same guy that got his jaw broken into 1298384302 pieces by the piece of shit that was Hines Ward on a blind side block ??

 

 

I rememeber he came into the league with high expectations.

 

Decent depth signings by OBD

Edited March 13, 2014 by Victor7

[foster]

They are addressing all the areas of weakness. I like these signings. Not flashy, but solid, depth signings at positions of need.

[NJBillsFan]

With all the injuries we have every year, depth is good.

[D-Rocafella]

I like these two signings as well as our 1st signing. All three guys should be contributors to the team. Graham will provide great depth at corner which is a position that in today's game you can never have enough of. Williams should come in and be the starting LG and Rivers could also be a starter at SLB with Kiko in the middle and Bradham at WLB.

 

These moves to me make me think we are targeting either a reciever/tight end or offensive tackle in the first round. If I had to call it now I would say we end up with either:

 

Greg Robinson

Jeff Matthews

Taylor Lewan

Sammy Watkins

Mike Evans

Eric Ebron

Edited March 13, 2014 by D-Rocafella
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[jwenger]

I like these two signings as well as our 1st signing. All three guys should be contributors to the team. Graham will provide great depth at corner which is a position that in today's game you can never have enough of. Williams should come in and be the starting LG and Rivers could also be a starter at SLB with Kiko in the middle and Bradham at WLB.

 

These moves to me make me think we are targeting either a reciever/tight end or offensive tackle in the first round. If I had to call it now I would say we end up with either:

 

Greg Robinson

Jeff Matthews

Taylor Lewan

Sammy Watkins

Mike Evans

Eric Ebron

 

Sammy Watkins would be my pick since the Pats have added "The Island" Revis for 1 yr. @

12 million. We'd have to move up to get Watkins. I'd love any of the others except Ebron,

I have seen his college games and he is NOT clutch. Drops too many in the end zone.

Evans >>>Ebron.

[junglesouljah]

They are both good signings.

 

Keith Rivers played SLB for the Giants last year, starting in 8 games. He is a very physically talented player who was drafted 9th overall by Cincinnati Bengals in 2008 and has under achieved in his career so far. This is good news IMO because he is capable of playing a lot better and the DC will be able to squeeze more production out of him than he has shown so far.

 

Corey Graham is a CB with size who could challenge McKelvin for the starting CB spot opposite of Gilmore. With the proliferation of spread offenses in the NFL you need talented nickel and dime CB's to match up with the talented #3 and #4 WR's, so having McKelvin or Graham playing the #3 CB spot is a positive. Graham made the 2011 pro bowl as a special teams player so he will upgrade the play of the special teams coverage teams as well. Worst case scenario he plays the #3 CB spot at a high level and upgrades the special teams coverage teams.