The Buffalo Bills were so enamored by Sammy Watkins that they attempted to move up all the way to No. 1 to ensure they were able to select him.

The Bills eventually moved up from No. 9 to No. 4 to select Watkins, giving up their first round pick next season and a fourth rounder as well.

“We went with Houston right off the bat,” Bills' director of player personnel Jim Monos said. “We tried to go to No. 1. They weren’t having it. They knew who they wanted, so we started working our way right down.”

The Browns called before the Texans submitted their pick for Jadeveon Clowney to confirm that the Bills were still interested. The Bills were unsure what the Jacksonville Jaguars were thinking with the No. 3 pick.

“We really didn’t know,” Monos said. “Jacksonville never tipped it. We had just heard so much that they needed a receiver. We thought that this was going to be Sammy. We knew that if Jacksonville didn’t take him we had a shot.”

The Buffalo Bills attempted to trade up to select Carlos Hyde.

Hyde, a running back out of Ohio State, was picked by the San Francisco 49ers.

“What we were told by Miami was the 49ers deal was more appealing because they didn’t have to drop down as far because San Francisco still had a pick in the second round so that made sense to them and it made sense to us,” Doug Whaley said.

The 49ers picked Hyde and the Bills moved on to trade for Bryce Brown to round out their backfield for the 2014 season.

The 2009 NFL Draft was one of the worst in recent memory.

Of the 256 players selected that year, there are almost as many out of the league -- 122 -- as there are still on one of the 32 teams -- 134. However, just 38 of 256, or a not-so-sizzling 14.8 percent, remain on their original teams. 

Matthew Stafford was the first overall pick by the Detroit Lions, followed by Jason Smith, Tyson Jackson, Aaron Curry and Mark Sanchez.

There have been just 12 total Pro Bowlers in the class.

Teddy Bridgewater said he wouldn't have wanted to play for the Cleveland Browns had they drafted him with the 22nd overall pick.

Bridgewater eventually was picked with the 32nd overall pick by the Minnesota Vikings.

"There was a chance, but I actually told my agent that's not the place where I wanted to be. Throughout this entire process I felt comfortable with the Minnesota Vikings. Every visit that I had with the team, you know, there was a family environment and the players, great guys. A great group of guys. So I felt comfortable wanting to play here."

The Cleveland Browns have denied a report that the team originally had Teddy Bridgewater's name on their draft card with the No. 22 overall pick before switching it to Johnny Manziel in the final 10 seconds.

"I heard that story too, and it's beyond laughable," Mike Pettine said.

Browns spokesman Zak Gilbert said the report is "completely false" and that he was in the team's draft room when the club traded up from No. 26 to No. 22 to draft Manziel.

"That is not true," Gilbert said. "I was in the draft room. That didn't happen."

The Cleveland Browns won the two most lopsided trades of the 2014 NFL Draft.

Though it ranked second on Bill Barnwell's list, the Browns' acquisition of the Buffalo Bills' first round pick in 2015 can become the most impactful. The Browns acquired the ninth overall pick, along with a 2015 first rounder and a fourth rounder for the fourth overall selection, which the Bills used on Sammy Watkins.

The Bills have selected in the top half of the draft for more than a decade.

The Browns got 170.5 percent of trade value in the deal.

But the most lopsided trade was when the Browns sent the 218th overall pick in 2014 for a sixth rounder in 2015. Even if the Ravens are the 15th best team in the NFL, this like dealing 218 for 191 for free. It represents 400 percent of trade value.

Thirty-six of the 98 underclassmen that declared for the 2014 NFL Draft were not selected.

“For those agents/media members selling ’2nd contract’ to these young men, what say you to the 36 of 98 underclassmen not drafted?” wrote Todd McShay on Twitter.

McShay put Tennessee offensive lineman Antonio Richardson at No. 16 on the top 32 players for the 2014 draft last year and he wasn't drafted.  

Several other players were on his previous top-32 lists were not drafted.

The Texas Longhorns had zero players selected in the NFL Draft for the first time since 1937.

Texas was one of just five schools from college football's five power conferences (Big 12, SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12) to suffer the ignominious feat. Illinois, Northwestern, Rutgers and fellow Big 12 member Kansas were the others.

Jackson Jeffcoat was the Big 12 Defensive player of the Year.

A.J. McCarron went undrafted in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft just a few weeks after saying he expected his draft range to be from 16 to 35.

McCarron rubbed teams “the wrong way” when he met with them heading into the draft, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Chris Mortensen reported that McCarron's repeated claims that he'd been told he would be a first round pick bothered some talent evaluators.

The predicted results from 50 prominent mock drafts from draft blogs, national news outlets and local newspapers in NFL cities were woefully inaccurate for the first round of Thursday's draft.

The average mock draft was correct—matching a player with a team in the right draft slot—on 3.92 of 32 picks. If you don't count the first two picks, which many pundits handicapped, the average number of correct picks was 2.38 per mock draft. The overall winner was year-round draft site WalterFootball.com, which had eight perfect picks. 

Only one mock draft accurately predicted Blake Bortles to the Jackonsville Jaguars, which was courtesy of Jacksonville.com.