ESPN recently named the Buffalo Bills' biggest remaining roster hole ahead of the 2025 NFL season.
And unfortunately for the Bills, it's a roster hole that won't be easy to fill.
ESPN thinks the Bills need some outside wide receiver help.
From ESPN: Keon Coleman had a quietly efficient rookie season. Although he missed four games due to injury and had only 29 catches for 556 yards with four touchdowns, Coleman ended with an excellent receiving DVOA of 11.4% -- ranked 30th out of 91 qualifying receivers. The Bills added Joshua Palmer in free agency; he's a useful player with an average DVOA and back-to-back seasons of at least 580 receiving yards. But there's no clear No. 1 option and very little depth behind Coleman and Palmer.
The next three receivers -- Khalil Shakir, Curtis Samuel and Elijah Moore -- are slot options. The third-best outside option is probably seventh-round pick Kaden Prather. The Bills should consider bringing Amari Cooper back, if just for depth purposes. General manager Brandon Beane might be OK with the wide receiver depth, but it's not optimal.
The Bills showed last season (without Stefon Diggs) that they can win the division and make a deep playoff run without an elite wide receiver group. But that doesn't change that the wide receiver position is still a bit of a weakness for Buffalo.
And there's not a good way -- outside of a blockbuster trade (which is very unlikely) -- to make a significant improvement at wide receiver this offseason.
As ESPN noted, the best available free agent option is Amari Cooper, who caught 20 passes for 297 yards and two touchdowns in eight games for the Bills last season.
Cooper would be a solid addition to the roster, but he wouldn't be a massive upgrade that takes the Bills' wide receiver group to another level.
Outside of Cooper, there are basically only depth options remaining in free agency -- nothing that moves the needle, essentially.
Bills general manager Brandon Beane has made it clear that he's comfortable with Buffalo's current stable of wide receivers.
Beane better hope he's right, because it would be a shame to squander what's left of the Bills' Super Bowl window all because Buffalo didn't want to give quarterback Josh Allen more weapons.
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