Bills flip picks for No.101 Bowry

The Buffalo Bills used the draft capital from their trade out of Round 1 to land Boston College offensive tackle Jude Bowry on Saturday. (buffalobills.com 1) (buffalobills.com 2) Buffalo sent picks No. 31, No. 69 and No. 165 to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday, April 23, and got back No. 35, No. 66 and No. 101. (buffalobills.com) (sportingnews.com) When Day 3 opened on Saturday, April 25, general manager Brandon Beane traded down once more, moving from No. 101 to No. 102 with the Las Vegas Raiders and adding a 2027 seventh-round pick. (buffalobills.com) (sportingnews.com) That made Bowry the player Buffalo ultimately bought with the Titans deal: a fourth-round tackle taken 102nd overall after the Bills dropped out of the first round entirely. (buffalobills.com) (bceagles.com) Bowry arrives with size and starting experience. Boston College listed him at 6-foot-5 and 314 pounds, and he played 31 games with 23 starts across both tackle spots from 2022 through 2025. (buffalobills.com) (bceagles.com) His 2025 pass protection is part of the appeal. Boston College said Bowry started nine games at left tackle and did not allow a sack in 311 dropback snaps. (bceagles.com) His testing numbers pushed him up draft boards, too. MockDraftable listed Bowry in the 96th percentile for vertical jump and 95th percentile for broad jump among offensive tackles, with 10 3/4-inch hands in the 90th percentile. (mockdraftable.com) (sports.yahoo.com) Buffalo’s own writeup said Bowry has nearly 11-inch hands, arms close to 34 inches, and enough flexibility to compete at tackle or slide inside to guard if needed. (buffalobills.com) The Bills had already used the Titans trade return on Clemson edge rusher T.J. Parker at No. 35, and Sporting News counted the overall effect of Buffalo’s Thursday moves as a nine-spot slide from No. 26 to No. 35 for extra picks. (sportingnews.com) So the Bowry pick is less about one isolated fourth-round selection than the shape of Buffalo’s whole weekend: move back, add picks, and still come away with a developmental lineman the team says has elite traits. (buffalobills.com) (sportingnews.com)