Bills QB Josh Allen 'Very, Very Happy' With Dalton Kincaid Draft Pick

"Any time you get to add a piece to your offense like that, I can’t help but be excited," Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen said of the team's first-round selection of tight end Dalton Kincaid.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen and general manager Brandon Beane are in sync this offseason: They both thought that Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid wouldn't be on the board at the end of the first round in last month's draft.

Though it's Bills linebacker Von Miller who has been public in his attempts to try and soak in the knowledge necessary to become a GM, Allen embraced his inner front-office role as well during the draft process, admitting on Tuesday that he was in Beane's ear convincing him that Kincaid should be Buffalo's pick in the first round.

Beane listened, even trading up two spots from No. 27 to No. 25 to select Kincaid and secure Allen another weapon on offense.

Think Allen was satisfied with how things turned out?

“I didn’t think he’d be there by the time we were picking,” Allen said, per The Buffalo News. “We’ll just say I was persistent in my talks with Beane and who I wanted. I was very, very happy with how it happened.”

It's hard not to be happy if you're Allen, as Kincaid proved last season at Utah that his reliability as a natural pass-catcher makes his floor as an NFL player higher than most other rookies. At 6-4, 240 pounds, Kincaid brings nice size to the tight end position, but seperates himself from the rest of most guys that play the position due to his receiving skills. In four of his five collegiate seasons, he caught at least eight touchdown passes. During his freshman season as San Diego, 11 of his 24 catches for the season were touchdowns.

Kincaid's can't-miss offensive ability made him someone that the Bills not only couldn't pass on, but had to trade up for to jump the Dallas Cowboys at No. 26 just to assure they could get him.

This should speak volumes to how highly Beane, coach Sean McDermott and now, Allen, view Kincaid. But Allen went into more detail about why this is.

“Obviously super excited to get a weapon like him,” Allen said. “He’s very fluid in his route running. He’s a very fluid ball catcher. He tracks the ball well, so any time you get to add a piece to your offense like that, I can’t help but be excited. He seems like he’s a smart kid. ... He’s going to help us out a lot.”

Regardless of the specifics of Kincaid's role this upcoming season, it's easy to imagine that he could find ample space in yards-after-catch scenarios, especially when the rest of the secondary is downfield and Allen has to make a short throw on the fly.

Though volume will be hard to come by his first few years in the league, Kincaid has proven he has the star-level traits that could eventually command a role similar to that of Travis Kelce or Mark Andrews. In a thrilling 43-42 win over the USC Trojans last season, Kincaid led all receivers with 16 catches for 234 yards and one touchdown, as he picked apart one of the best teams in the country in dominant fashion.

Selecting a tight end was certainly a pick that seemed to be on the lesser-likely side of things for the Bills. But that clearly wasn't the thought process inside the Bills organization, as they got their guy, one that few expected them to be targeting.

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