Ar’maj Reed gives Bills immense upside at guard in long-term future

I owe it to myself to write about Bills rookie guard Ar’maj Reed-Adams, but not as a victory lap.

Quite simply, Reed-Adams was one of my 2026 draft crushes, so I would’ve been “rooting” for him regardless of NFL locale. He wasn’t selected until the seventh round by the Bills, and then actually made Buffalo’s 53-man roster after the preseason.

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Based on his draft position alone — heck, he was one of the last 20 picks in the draft — Reed-Adams was a relative long-shot for such an achievement. In fact, 18 of the 41 seventh-round picks from the 2026 NFL Draft were waived by cutdown day, and as...