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Doug Whaley continues his streak of big Buffalo Bills trades

In slightly less than two calendar years calling the shots, Doug Whaley has orchestrated a whopping 11 trades as the general manager of the Buffalo Bills. How do you think he's done?

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Less than a year ago, we showed you how Doug Whaley has been very active in trades since taking over as Buffalo Bills general manager in May of 2013. Needless to say, he hasn't done anything to dispel that notion in the intervening time, trading for LeSean McCoy and Matt Cassel this week.

Since stepping into the role of decision maker (widely considered the 2013 NFL Draft, a few weeks before he was officially named general manager when Buddy Nix stepped down), Whaley has engineered 11 trades. To make it even more remarkable, many of them have been the rare player-for-player swaps.

To find the previous 11 trades the Bills had made prior to Whaley, you need to go back to 2007. In less than two years, Whaley has moved more picks players than the organization moved as a whole in the previous six.

Here's Whaley's complete trade rundown, in chronological order:

Trade 1

St. Louis gets: 2013 Round 1 pick (WR Tavon Austin), 2013 Round 3 pick (S T.J. McDonald)

Buffalo gets: 2013 Round 1 pick (QB EJ Manuel), 2013 Round 2 pick (LB Kiko Alonso), 2013 Round 3 pick (WR Marquise Goodwin), 2013 Round 7 pick (TE Chris Gragg)

Trade 2

Indianapolis gets: LB Kelvin Sheppard

Buffalo gets: DE Jerry Hughes

Trade 3

Detroit gets: LB Chris White

Buffalo gets: QB Thad Lewis

Trade 4

Tampa Bay gets: 2014 Round 6 pick (WR Robert Herron)

Buffalo gets: WR Mike Williams

Trade 5

Cleveland gets: 2014 Round 1 pick (CB Justin Gilbert), 2015 Round 1 pick, 2015 Round 4 pick

Buffalo gets: 2014 Round 1 pick (WR Sammy Watkins)

Trade 6

San Francisco gets: WR Stevie Johnson

Buffalo gets: 2015 Round 4 pick (traded to Philadelphia in Trade 8)

Trade 7

St. Louis gets: 2014 Round 2 pick (S Lamarcus Joyner)

Buffalo gets: 2014 Round 2 pick (OT Cyrus Kouandjio), 2014 Round 5 pick (OG Cyril Richardson)

Trade 8

Philadelphia gets: 2015 Round 4 pick (acquired from San Francisco in Trade 6)

Buffalo gets: RB Bryce Brown

Trade 9

Tampa Bay gets: 2014 Round 5 pick (OT Kevin Pamphile)

Buffalo gets: 2014 Round 7 pick (LB Randell Johnson), 2015 Round 5 pick

Trade 10

Philadelphia gets: LB Kiko Alonso

Buffalo gets: RB LeSean McCoy

Trade 11

Minnesota gets: 2015 Round 5 pick, 2016 Round 7 pick

Buffalo gets: QB Matt Cassel, 2015 Round 6 pick