ORCHARD PARK - With three primary needs filled on defense, Buffalo Bills General Manager Brandon Beane entered Day 3 of the NFL Draft with a wide open agenda.

He started Saturday with seven picks - one in the fourth round, three in the fifth, two in the sixth and one in the seventh. Early in the day, he made a trade with the Bears to move up in the fourth round and ended up taking six players on the day.

This is how the day unfolded.

The 2025 NFL Draft is complete. Here are all of the Bills' selections.

Buffalo's 2025 draft class is complete. The Bills selected Maryland wide receiver Kaden Prather in the seventh round.

Prather played two seasons at West Virginia and two at Maryland. He had at least 500 yards receiving in his final three college years, including 600-plus in each season with the Terrapins.

He finished his college career with 162 receptions for 1,966 yards and 12 touchdowns in 48 games.

The Bills added a lot of bulk up front on defense. They selected Connecticut offensive tackle Chase Lundt at No. 206 in the second round.

Lundt made 49 starts in his Huskies career and only missed one game. Connecticut's offensive line rushed for 2,590 yards in 2024, the second-highest single-season total in school history. Lundt is 6-foot-7 and has room to bulk up at 304 pounds.

"He is very dependable, You can count on him to work hard every day and have a great attitude," UConn head coach Jim Mora said in an October 2024 CT Insider story . "He's a great human being and I've been fortunate to spend this time with him."

A long cornerback who can play zone and and will fight for a roster spot found late in the draft. Dorian Strong was picked at No. 177 and checks boxes for head coach Sean McDermott.

Strong played five seasons at Virginia Tech, recording 112 tackles seven interceptions, 28 passes defended and three forced fumbles over 53 games. He was a third-team All-ACC pick 2023 and honorable mention All-ACC in 2024.

Georgia Tech tight end Jackson Hawes is the first offensive player of the draft for the Bills.

Jackson Hawes, who will turn 25 during the season, spent five seasons at Yale before transferring to Georgia Tech in 2024. He had 16 receptions for 195 yards with the Yellow Jackets but excels as a physical blocker.

Buffalo added its second cornerback of the draft. The Bills picked versatile Ohio State cornerback Jordan Hancock at No. 170. Hancock played outside, in the slot and at safety over his four-year career with the Buckeyes.

Hancock had 98 tackles, 2.5 sacks, three interceptions, four forced fumbles and 14 passes defended in 42 games.

He won a national championship with Ohio State in 2024.

The Bills may be looking to pick a tight end on Saturday, but several have gone off the board in the fifth round including the former Orange standout who went to Los Angeles at pick No. 165, five slots before the Bills are set to pick next.

Gadsden, the son of former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Oronde Gadsden, began his career at Syracuse as a wide receiver and transitioned to tight end. He caught 61 passes for 969 yards and six TDs in 2022, then missed most of 2023 with a foot injury. He returned in 2024 and caught 73 passes for 934 yards and seven TDs.

If the Bills were looking to add a running back at some point on Day 3, the pickings are getting pretty slim. The fourth round is barely half over and five have jumped off the board.

The run began with the Jaguars taking Bhayshul Tuten of Virginia Tech at 104, and the Giants grabbed Arizona State's Cam Skatteboo at 105. Georgia's Trevor Etienne went to the Panthers at 114, then Woody Marks of USC was taken by the Patriots at 116, and Jarquez Hunter of Auburn went to the Rams at 117.

The Bills could still explore the market, but with three players already on the roster, unless there's a running back out there who can come in and handle both punt and kickoff returns, it doesn't make much sense for Buffalo to pick one.

Buffalo currently has nine total selections in the draft.

The Buffalo Bills moved up the board and selected Deone Walker, a defensive tackle from Kentucky.

Walker was a college teammate of Buffalo first-round pick Maxwell Hairston. Walker is the third Kentucky player Buffalo has taken in three years. The Bills also have 2024 fourth-round running back Ray Davis.

The third and final day covers Rounds 4-7 and starts at noon on Saturday.

Day 3 of the NFL Draft will be televised on ESPN , ABC , NFL Network and ESPN Deportes .

If you have an over-the-air antenna that picks up ABC, you can watch the draft without a cable or live streaming subscription.

If anyone was wondering what Brandon Beane thought of the Buffalo Bills defense as he began constructing the 2025 roster, he has made it perfectly clear that it needed a lot of help.

Systematically, almost surgically, starting with free agency more than a month ago and now through two rounds of the NFL Draft, Beane has essentially remade a unit that struggled for chunks of 2024, and then failed miserably in the AFC Championship Game loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

On the first two days of the draft, Beane addressed the three most glaring needs on the team by selecting cornerback Max Hairston in the first round , defensive tackle TJ Sanders in the second , and edge rusher Landon Jackson in the third . You could not have drawn up a plan of attack any better than that.

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