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A pessimist's guide to the 2025 Buffalo Bills
Sitting atop the AFC East with NFL MVP Josh Allen at quarterback, it’s hard (but not impossible) to find fault with the Buffalo Bills. Here’s what we found for dubious fans.
1. Suspensions
Last March, Bills GM Brandon Beane announced the team had signed former Rams DE Michael Hoecht to a three-year, $21M contract and former Bengals DT Larry Ogunjobi to a one-year, $6.6M deal. He also said both will be suspended for the first six games of the 2025 regular season for violating the league's performance-enhancing drug policy.
Each player took full responsibility for their transgressions, but with the team’s bye coming in Week 7, neither player can do anything for the team until Week 8, when they travel to face the Panthers on Oct. 26.
In the meantime, the team will lean heavily on edge-rushers A.J. Epenesa and Greg Rousseau and hope DT T.J. Sanders and DE Landon Jackson, second- and third-round picks in this year’s draft, can help fill in the gaps.
2. Joey Bosa
Buffalo also signed edge-rusher Joey Bosa, a five-time Pro Bowler with the Chargers, to replace Von Miller, the eight-time Pro Bowler who was released in the offseason. Unfortunately for Bosa, who turns 30 years old next month, he suffered a calf injury during team OTAs and is expected to be sidelined until training camp.
Bills DE Joey Bosa working off to the side at minicamp. Currently dealing with a calf injury#BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/GI5CrD6bKf
— Carl Jones (@Jones11_) June 10, 2025
While the injury is minor, a litany of issues has kept Bosa off the field in his nine-year career. Foot and hamstring problems that cost him eight games in 2023 and a groin injury landed him on the injured reserve list for 12 games in 2022. He also missed three games with a hip injury last season.
Once a lock to register double-digit sacks in a season, Bosa hasn’t hit the mark since 2021, when he had 10.5. Since then, he’s averaged 4.6 sacks and 9.3 games played per season.
3. Keon Coleman
By his own assessment, Coleman’s rookie season could have gone much better. "You want to know exactly what I see? When that (expletive) trash, you got to be better, simple as that," Coleman told reporters when asked what he sees when watching last year’s tape.
The 33rd overall pick in last year’s draft looked great with 14 catches, 195 yards and a score in Weeks 7-8 but averaged 1.6 catches and 32 yards per game in his final five contests.
Coleman appears to have the right attitude and may have finished as Buffalo’s No. 2 receiver with 556 yards and four scores, but he’ll need to do much better if the team hopes to get back to the AFC Championship game.
4. Kansas City
The Bills are undefeated against the Kansas City Chiefs in their last four regular-season games, but 0-4 against them in their last four playoff meetings. The last defeat came in last year’s AFC Championship Game, where Buffalo took a one-point lead into the fourth quarter only to give up a game-winning field goal with 2:42 left in a 32-29 loss.
Double-digit wins, division titles and MVP awards are nice but they won’t mean anything until the Bills find a way to get past the Chiefs in a postseason game.
More must-reads:
- An optimist's guide to the 2025 Buffalo Bills
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