The Buffalo Bills made a Bills trade with the Houston Texans on April 22, 2026, sending away the No. 26 overall pick and the No. 91 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. In return, Buffalo received Houston’s No. 28, No. 69 and No. 167 overall picks.
The deal gave the Bills a first-round pick, a third-round pick and a fifth-round pick as they worked through Round 1 of the draft. It also came on a night when Brandon Beane and Joe Brady were inside Buffalo’s redesigned Draft Room at the Kaleida Health Performance Center.
The trade was part of Buffalo’s draft activity on Night 1, with the Bills also picking up the No. 31 overall selection and the No. 125 pick in the fourth round. Taken together, the moves left Buffalo with more chances to shape the class beyond its original first-round slot, while Houston moved up to take the No. 26 pick.
For Buffalo, the significance was immediate: the team turned one first-round pick and a third-round selection into three choices spread across the top half of the draft. That kind of split can change the board quickly, especially when a club is already working from inside a live draft room and has multiple decisions still ahead of it.
The Bills entered the night with one set of picks and exited the trade with another, and that is the point. Buffalo now has more draft capital to use as the 2026 NFL Draft moves forward, and the next choices will show whether the club used the deal to widen its options or target specific players later in the process.
