{"id":1212,"date":"2025-04-26T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1212\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:52:22","slug":"bills-select-dt-sanders-edge-jackson-on-day-2-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1212\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills select DT Sanders, EDGE Jackson on Day 2 of NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills continued their run on defense on Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brandon Beane on the overhaul of the defensive line this offseason:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It starts up front. We&#8217;re always trying to look for ways to do that on both sides of the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Young (@AndyYoungTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyYoungTV\/status\/1915949860257194126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bills took defensive tackle T.J. Sanders with the 41st selection, after moving up in a swap of multiple picks with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo received picks 41, 72 and 240 from Chicago in exchange for picks 56, 62 and 109.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, who stands 6\u20194\u201d and weighs 291 pounds, racked up 8.5 sacks and 16.5 tackles for loss over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bills new DT T.J. Sanders is known to play with violence and a high motor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A guy who plays with a high IQ, adaptable, explosive, twitchy, can play the run, can rush the passer. I feel like that&#8217;s the gist of me.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GquOCHjhjv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GquOCHjhjv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Young (@AndyYoungTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyYoungTV\/status\/1915927933287387607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With pick 72, the Bills took EDGE Landon Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20196\u201d, 264 pound edge rusher had\u00a013 sacks the past two seasons with Arkansas, and was named All-SEC.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brandon Beane said they felt like they needed to get younger on defense. Landon Jackson was the highest player on their board when he came up in the 3rd round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Young (@AndyYoungTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyYoungTV\/status\/1915949216842584332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/sports\/2025\/04\/25\/buffalo-bills-first-round-of-2025-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bills took cornerback Maxwell Hairston<\/a> in the first round Thursday night, the fastest man in this NFL draft class.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills continued their run on defense on Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft. Brandon Beane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[1615,1613,214,53,7,49,48,88,1612,1614,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-rochester","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}