Orchard Park, N.Y. — When Dalton Kincaid hung up the phone after the Buffalo Bills called him to say he was their first-round draft pick on Thursday night, fans watching the broadcast noticed a man in the background frantically thumbing through NFL team hats on a table.
Kincaid just told his family and friends he was the newest member of the Bills and he had no draft hat to put on. The gentleman behind him couldn’t find it. After a stressful few moments, he finally located the Bills cap in the final pile – crisis averted.
The Bills introduced Kincaid to local reporters on Friday and one of the first questions was about the hat fiasco. Kincaid said his friend is now known as “the hat guy.”
“Yeah, the hat guy,” Kincaid said. “That’s what we’ve been calling him the last 12 hours. He had one job. But no, the trade might have thrown him off a little bit. He was rotating the hats pretty consistently and no one really knew who I was on the phone with when I was on the phone. So he got me the hat finally but it made for a pretty cool memory.”
The Bills traded up two spots to pick Kincaid, who was the first tight end to come off the board in the draft. Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane hinted to the fact that Kincaid was one of the last players the Bills had with a first-round grade. So Buffalo traded up in the first round for the fourth time in the six drafts since Beane became the GM.
Kincaid said that Bills quarterback Josh Allen sent him a welcome text on Friday, along with new tight end room buddy Dawson Knox and offensive tackle Spencer Brown.
“Josh reached out to me, which is pretty cool,” he said. “I mean, you don’t get a text from someone like that very often.”
Kincaid has heard all about the chicken wings in Buffalo and admitted he will have to change things up and become a blue cheese guy. He’s also excited to play in front of a sold-out Highmark Stadium.
“I mean the fan base, is well known. They’re diehards, and I love that,”…
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