The Bills will be without 4th round pick Marcus Easley (WR) and 6th round pick Danny Batten (OLB) for the entire 2010 season.  Easley had surgery on his left knee and this is a big blow to the Bills who were hoping that he would help out their depleted WR corps in 2010.  Batten needed shoulder surgery.  His loss won’t be as big as the Bills weren’t expecting much more than special teams work out of Batten in 2010.

The Bills have picked OT Kyle Calloway with the 216th pick overall (7th round) of the NFL Draft.  Calloway is 6′6″, 322 pounds so he looks the part but he will need to get into the weight room to improve the power he plays with.  He is a good pass blocker already as his game is based on finesse.  He played in 12 games (all starts) for Iowa and he has played in 39 games (37 starts) in his four years there.  Calloway was a nice prospect for the Bills to get with their last pick in the NFL Draft as he dropped a couple of rounds from where he was projected to be picked.

The Bills have selected QB Levi Brown out of Troy with the 209th overall pick (7th round) of the NFL Draft.  The Bills caught a sliding prospect here as most experts had him graded out to go in the 4th or 5th round.  With the depth chart at QB that the Bills have right now Brown could work his way up the chart one step at a time.  He will start out #4 on the depth chart.  Brown is really good at throwing the short stuff but his long ball needs some work.  He is a big guy at 6′3″, 219 pounds and he is a good athlete.  He keeps his eyes downfield looking to make the big play which is a good trait to have.  Brown played in 13 games (all starts) for Troy last season and he completed 321 of 504 passes (63.7%) for 4,254 yards with 23 TD passes and 9 INTs.  He played in 34 games (24 starts) at Troy and Richmond in which he completed 588 of 962 passes (61.1%) for 6,968 yards with 43 TD passes and 19 INTs.  The Bills might have caught lightning in a bottle with Brown who could develop into a starting QB in the NFL down the road.

The Buffalo Bills have picked OLB Dan Batten out of South Dakota State with the 192nd overall pick (6th round) of the NFL Draft.  Batten was a DE in college so he will have to learn a new position to win a job in the pros.  He is 6′2″, 250 pounds and he runs a 4.8 40 so he has the athletic ability to make it if he responds well to the Bills’ coaching staff.  Batten played in 12 games for S.Dakota St. last season and he had 85 tackles, 17 tackles for a loss and 9 sacks.  In his four years in college, Batten played in 46 games in which he had 273 tackles, 52.5 tackles for a loss and he had 23 sacks.  Batten will likely have to help out on special teams until he learns his new position.

The Bills have selected OLB Arthur Moats out of James Madison with the 178th overall pick (6th round) of the NFL Draft.  Moats is 6′0″, 246 pounds and he runs a 4.69 40 so he has the athletic ability to play OLB in the pros.  But he was a defensive end in college playing against inferior competition so he will likely need coached up to survive in the NFL.  Moats played in 11 games at James Madison last season and he had 90 tackles, 23.5 tackles for a loss and 11 sacks.  Moats played in 49 games in his four years at James Madison in which he had 218 tackles, 48.5 tackles for a loss and he had 29 sacks.  Initially I think that Moats will have to make the Bills on special teams while he learns how to play linebacker.