Buffalo Rumblings
Last season, the Buffalo Bills had definite issues at wide receiver. As a group, the team lacked dynamic playmakers who could separate and win consistently, especially against man coverage. What the group didn’t lack, though, was toughness in the ground game, as the Bills had a very good group of blocking receivers last year.
While that might not be a wideout’s main job description, blocking is definitely part of what a receiver has to do. The Bills have upgraded their receiving corps, but they still need some tough, hard-nosed guys who aren’t afraid to mix it up while opening lanes for Buffalo’s excellent running backs.
In today’s edition of “91 players in 91 days,” we discuss a player who’s so tough that he suffered a major injury during his final game last year, yet somehow played through it to help propel the Bills to victory.
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Name: Tyrell Shavers
Number: 14
Position: WR
Height/Weight: 6’4” 211 lbs.
Age: 26 (27 on 8/18/2026)
Experience/Draft: 2; signed with Buffalo following the 2023 NFL Draft
College: San Deigo State
Acquired: UDFA signing
Financial situation (per Spotrac): Shavers is entering the final year of his two-year contract signed prior to the 2025 NFL season. The total value of the pact is $2.042 million. In 2026, Shavers carries a cap hit of $1,078,500 if he’s on the roster. Buffalo would carry a dead cap hit of $3,500 if he were released, but they would also have to wait to do so until he’s healthy.
2025 Recap: After some impressive preseason work and an explosive, highlight-reel play at the end of the 2024 season, Shavers made Buffalo’s roster out of camp last year. He appeared mostly on special teams in the early going, playing between 20% and 33% of the team’s offensive snaps across the first month of the season. From Week Six onward, though, he became a mainstay on offense, appearing on 49.6% of Buffalo’s offensive snaps for the rest of the year. That also include a Week Eighteen contest where he played on just four offensive snaps, further showing just how important to the team he was last season. Shavers’ big offensive breakout came against the Tamp Bay Buccaneers in Week Eleven, as he caught four passes for 90 yards and a score on five targets. For the season, Shavers totaled just 15 receptions for 242 yards and a touchdown, but he did most of his damage blocking in the run game. He remained one of the top players in the receiver rotation during Buffalo’s 27-24 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs, but that would be the only postseason game he played. Shavers tore his ACL during the game, but in a display of his toughness, he finished the contest despite the injury.
Positional outlook: Shavers is one of thirteen receivers on the current roster. Joining him are Khalil Shakir, DJ Moore, Skyler Bell, Joshua Palmer, Mecole Hardman Jr., Mac Dalena, Jalen Virgil, Trent Sherfield Sr., Keon...
