By Nick Wojton / Billswire.usatoday.com
The Buffalo Bills running back room will be one of the top-watched position groups during the team’s training camp. There’s vets LeSean McCoy and Frank Gore and third-round rookie Devin Singletary joins TJ Yeldon on the other end of the age spectrum.
We’ll have to wait and see how things shake out.
But as a higher rookie selection, you can bet Singletary will stick around to the 2019 regular season. However, before Singletary even suits up for the Bills or experiences his new home, he’s walking into a place he’s excited about.
You can thank Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane for that.
According to Singletray, during the pre-draft process, the Bills were one of the teams that were most interested in him. That came to fruition when the Bills selected him with the No. 74 overall pick.
After Day 2 of the 2019 NFL draft, Beane explained the selection. First, the GM said Singletary reminds him a lot of McCoy.
“I don’t want to be unfair to LeSean, but he kind of plays like that, he makes a lot of guys miss in space, so we’ll call it a similar play-style to him,” Bean said.
“Because he didn’t get tackled a lot,” Beane further said about Singletary’s selection. “He had 66 touchdowns, I think. Out of all the guys I watched, I still have a note on this little surface where I write that this is the funnest guy I’ve watched all year. Even the guys I watched after him, I didn’t feel like I needed to erase it. The guy’s got some amazing vision, rare vision, lateral quickness, and his instincts, if this is ten [signals up], they’re up here [signals higher], and they’re very rare.”
Singletary won’t get his first look at his new home until May 10, when the Bills open rookie minicamp. Still, Beane’s admiration has Singletary motivated already, the back said.
“That’s big,” Singletary said about the Bills’ praise via Fox News. “I’m going somewhere that I’m wanted. It wasn’t just, ‘oh, we kind of want him.’ They showed that they really wanted me.
“They’ve been watching me from the beginning and like (Beane) said, I was one of the funnest to watch so that’ll be great, playing under a guy like that and I can’t wait to get to work.”
Now it’s just time to wait and see if Singletary really does has a little Shady in his game.