For the Buffalo Bills, "need a receiver crowd," you have just gotten validation.
With the noise all offseason for the Bills to pursue getting Josh Allen a No. 1 receiver, despite many overlooking the fact that the Bills have just $100,700 in cap space, it appears that, from the outside looking in, Josh Allen is going to have a hard time in 2025.
Granted, last year he proved he didn't need a true No. 1, but others, including NFL on CBS' Mike Renner, think the opposite.
In ranking all 32 teams' pass-catching weapons and putting them into tiers, Allen's weapons get a horror ranking.
Renner, along with Kyle Long, puts them in tier D.
"Obviously, the Bills another team that has kind of the kitchen sink approach at their receiving core," Renner said. "Like their fifth-best receiver isn't a bad receiver, but their best receiver is not a good receiver either, not a great receiver. They just have a lot of kind of guys in this core. Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Josh Palmer, Elijah Moore, Curtis Samuel, and then Dawson Knox, and Dalton Kincaid at tight end."
Bills quarterback Josh Allen congratulates receiver Khalil Shakir on his touchdown catch.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen congratulates receiver Khalil Shakir on his touchdown catch.
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Yeah, that's your bulletin board material, Josh.
Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Joshua Palmer, and Curtis Samuel make up the receivers, with Dalton Kincaid the tight end, and we shouldn't leave out James Cook either, who is a pass-catcher out of the backfield.
Now, this ranking is subjective, but there appears to be little to no confidence that this group can replicate its performance from last year, when it averaged 30.9 points per game.
With Allen bringing it all together, who knows what this group can do in 2025?
But I'll tell you one thing, Joe Brady's weapons won't be in the "D" tier for too long.