The Bills spent the 2026 offseason trying to patch more than one hole, and cornerback was one of the spots that demanded extra attention. On the surface, Buffalo looked fine there.
Dig a little deeper, though, and the depth chart told a different story - one that came back to bite the team at the worst possible time last season. So Brandon Beane added another body to the secondary, and this one comes with real upside.
That player is Davison Igbinosun, Buffalo’s second-round pick at No. 62 overall out of Ohio State. He’s listed at 6-foot-2 and 193 pounds, and he enters the league at 22 years old, turning 23 on 4/11/2027.
He’s now in the first year of a four-year rookie deal worth $7,949,010, with a 2026 cap hit of $1,445,274 if he makes the 53-man roster. If he doesn’t, Buffalo would be on the hook for a dead-cap charge of $5,738,907.
Igbinosun’s final season with the Buckeyes only strengthened his stock. He started all 14 games and finished with 53 tackles, half a tackle for loss, eight pass breakups, and two interceptions. That production earned him First-Team All-Big Ten honors for the first time after he had been an honorable mention selection in both 2023 and 2024.
The athletic testing helped, too. At the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine, Igbinosun ran a 4.45-second 40-yard dash and posted a 34-inch vertical and a 10-foot broad jump.
At Ohio State’s Pro Day, he improved those jumps to 35 inches and 10-foot-4, while also logging a 4.32-second 20-yard shuttle and a 7.07-second three-cone drill. He did not complete the bench press at either workout.
Buffalo is carrying five players at cornerback right now: Dee Alford, Christian Benford, Maxwell Hairston, Toriano Pride Jr., and Igbinosun. Te’Cory Couch, Kani Walker, Jordan Dunbar, and Jordan Hancock are all listed as defensive backs, though each either plays corner or moves between corner and safety.
The rookie has been healthy throughout the offseason and took part in all of Buffalo’s workouts. And while the Bills have been clear that they drafted him for depth rather than as a knock on last year’s top pick, Maxwell Hairston, there’s still a path to a bigger role if things break right in the new defense under coordinator Jim Leonhard.
That said, Hairston still looks like the starter. In limited action last season, he flashed enough in both the run game and pass coverage to earn that spot heading into 2026, and his injuries were described as flukey - first a buckled knee in training camp, then an ankle issue in the regular-season finale.
For Igbinosun, the biggest issue is the one that could follow him from college to the pros: penalties. He was flagged 30 times in college, and the concern is that his tendency to grab when a play breaks down could become a real problem in the NFL. The comparison made here was to Kaiir Elam, not as a prediction of the same career path, but as another corner whose grabby habits stood out.
For now, Igbinosun looks like a roster lock and a player whose best immediate fit is in sub packages or as an injury replacement while he learns the system. If he can clean up the penalties, Buffalo may have found a corner with the size and tools to become something more. And as the old adage goes, “You can never have enough corners.”
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