Seven Wide Receivers The Bills Should Trade For To Help Josh Allen

Bills wide head Brandon Beane was beautiful upset pinch reporters—and power hosts—this offseason aft perpetually being asked astir his team’s wide receiver situation. 

It’s easy to understand Beane’s frustrations because Josh Allen earned his first MVP grant and Buffalo averaged 30.9 points per crippled past season. Still, nan questions were adjacent to inquire because nan Bills are lacking a difference-maker astatine nan position. Also, Buffalo is usually successful nan marketplace for wide receivers, as evidenced by past year’s waste and acquisition for Amari Cooper.

Khalil Shakir is an outstanding downfield target, but he’s much of a No. 2 wide receiver. Keon Coleman, nan 2024 second-round pick, has potential, but he’s still struggling to return steps forward. 

With nan Bills connected a two-game losing streak, expect reporters successful Buffalo to again inquire astir nan wide receiver business arsenic we get person to nan Nov. 4 waste and acquisition deadline. Also, nan Bills mightiness nary longer person nan champion discourtesy successful nan AFC, pinch nan Colts being 6–1 and averaging a league-high 33.1 points per game. Buffalo ranks 4th astatine 27.8 .

Here are 7 wide receiver waste and acquisition targets for nan Bills successful bid of who Beane should telephone astir first. 

Stats: 44 catches, 440 yards, 3 TDs, 7 games

Maybe Olave shouldn’t beryllium classed No. 1 because Saints GM Mickey Loomis has been reluctant to waste and acquisition his champion players for galore years now. Still, Beane needs to make it a privilege to alteration Loomis’s mind. 

New Orleans is 1–6 and apt doesn’t person a franchise backmost connected this existent roster. It’s nan correct clip to commencement from scratch. Perhaps a second-round prime tin person Loomis to springiness up nan talented Olave, who seems to beryllium connected nan correct way aft dealing pinch injuries nan past fewer seasons. The 25-year-old Olave tin besides beryllium a semipermanent limb for Allen. 

Raiders wide receiver Jakobi Meyers whitethorn beryllium disposable owed to Las Vegas’s early-season struggles. / Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images

2. Jakobi Meyers, WR, Raiders

Stats: 29 catches, 329 yards, zero TDs, six games

Meyers mightiness not beryllium arsenic talented arsenic Olave, but he’s a friends target pinch nan perfect accomplishment group to complement Buffalo’s receiving corps. Most importantly, he might really beryllium available, pinch nan Raiders being 2–5 and Meyers requesting a waste and acquisition earlier nan commencement of nan season.

Meyers would besides beryllium an plus for moving backmost James Cook because he’s a talented tally blocker. At 28, Meyers still has plentifulness to connection and would summation nan Bills’ chances of winning a Super Bowl. Compensation, however, could beryllium tricky present because Meyers wants a caller deal, but a fourth-round prime could get it done. 

Stats: 30 catches, 356 yards, 2 TDs, 7 games

A waste and acquisition for Shaheed would springiness Allen 2 vulnerable downfield weapons, on pinch Shakir. Putting that benignant of accent connected secondaries, could besides unfastened up nan section for Coleman, who has struggled to get unfastened since entering nan convention past season. 

At 27, Shaheed tin besides beryllium a semipermanent plus for nan Bills. It says plentifulness that Shaheed has made life easier for his second-year backmost Spencer Rattler. He could do a batch much pinch nan reigning MVP. Beane should connection a third-round prime and not look back. Shaheed is worthy nan price. 

4. Jaylen Waddle, WR, Dolphins 

Stats: 30 catches, 405 yards, 3 TDs, 7 games

Waddle, 26, is nan champion wide receiver connected this list, but there’s a mini chance that nan Dolphins waste and acquisition him earlier nan Nov. 4 deadline and an moreover smaller chance of Miami sending him to a divisional rival.

But, hey, Beane should astatine slightest telephone nan Dolphins. You ne'er know, particularly aft nan Browns traded Joe Flacco to nan Bengals. 

Similar to Olave and Shaheed, Waddle’s big-play expertise could return this Bills’ discourtesy to nan adjacent level. Maybe Buffalo would beryllium amended disconnected pinch a playmaker person to nan statement of scrimmage, for illustration Meyers, but violative coordinator Joe Brady’s playbook would unfastened up pinch endless possibilities if a occurrence waste and acquisition for Waddle were to happen. 

Miami apt would want a first-round pick. That’s a steep value for a subordinate who has been inconsistent astatine times, but possibly aggregate picks get it done, including a 2026 2nd rounder. 

Tennessee has been reluctant to waste and acquisition Calvin Ridley, but would besides use from being connected nan receiving extremity of imaginable draught picks. / Steve Roberts-Imagn Images

Stats: 16 catches, 290 yards, zero TDs, six games

A waste and acquisition for Ridley mightiness not beryllium feasible for respective reasons, 1 being nan Titans’ reluctance to waste and acquisition nan seasoned wideout. 

He’s nan only value target successful Tennessee and trading Ridley could inhibit Cam Ward’s development. Yes, nan Titans request draught picks, but they besides request Ward to amended aft a slow commencement to his rookie year.

As for different obstacle, Ridley still has plentifulness of money near connected nan four-year, $92 cardinal woody he signed pinch nan Titans past year. Tennessee would request to eat a bulk of his salary, and possibly Ridley isn’t worthy nan problem because he’s connected nan incorrect broadside of 30. 

6. Christian Kirk, WR, Texans

Stats: 10 catches, 109 yards, zero TDs, 3 games

The Kirk acquisition hasn’t worked retired successful Houston. He continues to beryllium unavailable owed to injuries and nan past clip he played a afloat play was nan 2022 play pinch nan Jaguars. 

Still, nan 28-year-old Kirk could beryllium an inexpensive action for nan Bills. Houston apt would do nan waste and acquisition for a fifth-round prime aliases moreover little because nan squad wants to spot much from rookies Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel. Then again, it’s difficult to spot Kirk to enactment healthy. 

Stats: Five catches, 47 yards, zero TDs, six games

Thielen was traded from Carolina backmost to Minnesota earlier nan season, chiefly to beryllium a friends target for J.J. McCarthy and to supply extent for a short-handed receiving corps.

That didn’t activity retired because McCarthy has been sidelined since Week 2 and Thielen’s snaps person diminished since Jordan Addison returned from his three-game suspension. With Carson Wentz favoring Addison and Justin Jefferson, nan Vikings mightiness beryllium consenting to move Thielen again.

But it’s reliable seeing nan Bills going this way pinch a 35-year-old wideout. Last year’s waste and acquisition for Cooper had mixed results because he didn’t person overmuch near successful nan tank. 

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