{"id":1163013,"date":"2026-02-22T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163013"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:45:35","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-nfl-com-mock-sends-bills-round-1-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/2026-nfl-draft-nfl-com-mock-sends-bills-round-1-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL draft: NFL.com mock sends Bills Round 1 receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> see a weapon for quarterback Josh Allen join their roster in an early 2026 NFL draft mock from NFL.com. <\/p>\n<p>A name becoming a popular projection for the Bills with the No. 26 overall selection is Washington wide receiver Denzel Boston. He&#8217;s a prospect that makes sense. <\/p>\n<p>The thing missing from the Bills offense last season was a top tier X-receiver that can extend the field for Allen and the passing attack. At 6-foot-4, Boston has speed to match his size. That&#8217;s the prototype makeup for that type of playmaker. <\/p>\n<p>Boston has had back-to-back productive seasons for Washington with more than 60 catches and 800 yards in both. In 2025, Boston had 62 catches, 881 yards and 11 touchdowns. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/gennaro-filice-2026-nfl-mock-draft-1-0-jeremiyah-love-cracks-top-five-chiefs-take-wr-jordyn-tyson\">NFL.com&#8217;s<\/a> breakdown on Boston to the Bills can be found below: <\/p>\n<p>Josh Allen needs better weaponry in the passing game. The Bills haven\u2019t spent a first-round pick on a wide receiver since they drafted Sammy Watkins fourth overall in 2014. They did take Keon Coleman at the top of Round 2 a couple years ago, but that selection hasn\u2019t worked out as planned. (Just ask the owner.) If the team\u2019s still looking for a big-bodied ball winner, Boston could be a nice value at No. 26.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/2026\/02\/22\/2026-nfl-draft-buffalo-bills-round-1-receiver-denzel-boston-josh-allen\/88808907007\/\">2026 NFL draft: NFL.com mock sends Bills Round 1 receiver<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/2026-nfl-draft-nfl-com-124535712.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/2026-nfl-draft-nfl-com-124535712.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills see a weapon for quarterback Josh Allen join their roster in an early 2026 NFL draft mock from NFL.com. A name becoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}