The Buffalo Bills' first season was in 1960, which means there have been plenty of opportunities for the team to have missed on draft picks. The Bills have also had plenty of great draft picks through the years, but it seems for every couple of good selections, there are nearly as many bad ones.
Let's look at the five biggest draft busts in Bills' history.
5. J.P. Losman, 2004, 1st Round, 22nd Overall
In 2004, the Buffalo Bills had their eyes on Ben Roethlisberger, but when he was off the board, they reached for a quarterback. The Bills selected J.P. Losman with the 22nd overall pick out of Tulane.
Losman suffered a broken leg during his rookie season, but it didn't get much better after that, only playing one full, 16-game season. He started 33 games in his career, coming away with only 10 victories. In 2006, when he started all 16 games, he threw for 3,051 yards, 19 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
After leaving the Bills in 2008, he bounced around the league and only appeared in three more games.
4. EJ Manuel, 2013, 1st Round, 16th Overall
The Bills have had a lot of issues selecting quarterbacks throughout their history, including the selections of EJ Manuel with the 16th overall pick in the 2013 draft. There were a lot of players in the 2013 draft who proved to be busts. But the Bills' reaching for Manuel was a standout bad choice.
Manuel spent four seasons with in Buffalo with most of his games serving as the backup. Manuel only started 17 games, winning just six of those contests. He threw 19 touchdowns and 15 interceptions during his career.
3. Aaron Maybin, 2009, 1st Round 11th overall
In the 2009 draft, the Bills knew they needed an edge rusher so they selected Aaron Maybin with the 11th overall pick. He ended up playing two years with the Bills before heading to the New York Jets for another pair of seasons. During his two years in Buffalo, he never had a sack, and wasn't much of an impact player.
There have been worse overall busts in Bills history, but he is the team's worst on the defensive side of the ball.
2. Mike Williams, 2002, 1st Round, 4th Overall
The Bills drafted Mike Williams to help improve their offensive line, but he didn't turn out to be the missing link. Williams played four seasons with the team but none of those were very good. Too often he looked uninterested being on the football field.
After leaving the Bills, he spent three years out of the league before spending one final season with Washington. Williams simply never did enough to prove that he deserved to be selected fourth overall.
To make matters worse, the Vikings selected Bryant McKinnie with the seventh overall pick. McKinnie was a Pro Bowler and would have been a perfect fit in Buffalo's offensive line.
1. Tom Cousineau, 1979, 1st Round, 1st Overall
After trading away O.J. Simpson to the San Francisco 49ers, the Bills owned the first overall pick in the 1979 draft. The Bills selected Tom Cousineau to be their franchise quarterback but he never played a snap in Buffalo. Not only did he never play a snap, he never even played a snap.
The Montreal Alouettes offered Cousineau twice the money the Bills were offering him, so he went to the Canadian Football League. The only good thing to come from Buffalo selecting Cosineau was when he later tried to get back into the NFL. The Bills traded him to the Cleveland Browns for draft picks. One of those draft picks was used to draft Jim Kelly.
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