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While the Buffalo Bills try to make James Cook happy, Tre’Davious White is working to hold his starting job. However, here is the most fierce positional battle to watch in the Bills’ 2025 training camp.
The Bills have been criticized for not putting top-end talent at the receiver position to make quarterback Josh Allen even more dangerous. This year, the team will enter the season with either Khalil Shakir or Keon Coleman as WR1. Not surprisingly, neither of those guys ranks in the top 32 among NFL receivers, according to Pro Football Focus.
And that means the wide receiver position is a free-for-all battle with six total players heavy in the mix for snaps.
The Bills have been seen as a little arrogant about their receiver situation. But they point to the offensive production in 2024 to dismiss the criticism.
Still, offensive coordinator Joe Brady said the offense can’t rely on the past, according to the Buffalo Bills YouTube page via buffalobills.com.
“You don’t get to pick off where you left off, and we really don’t want to,” Brady said. “Josh embodies that, we’re starting over. When it’s install one, it’s the most basic. We have to master the system at every level. Sometimes you think you know everything, if you really humble yourself to just starting over, there’s always little things you can pick up.”
“With a guy like Josh, you get the MVP, you’re trying to just continue to challenge him in ways, and he wants it all. But every year is a new year.”
For Allen to rock and fire again in 2025, he will need someone other than Shakir or Coleman to make plays. Could it be one of the newcomers? Josh Palmer, Elijah Moore, and Laviska Shenault joined the team in the offseason through free agency. They will battle for the WR3 spot along with Curtis Samuel.
Palmer currently has a leg up, according to the Bills’ depth chart on espn.com. He ranked seventh in the NFL in average depth of target, according to sumersports.com. And that makes him the right guy for verticality in the Bills’ offense, Brady said.
“He’s been a seamless fit for our room,” said offensive coordinator Joe Brady. “He’s a guy that can play all the positions, play inside, play outside. It was a great get for us.”
As for Moore, he arrived after the NFL Draft. He’s only been in the league for four years, but is already a journeyman. This is his third team after being drafted in the second round by the Jets in 2021. He played for the Browns in 2023-24.
Meanwhile, Sheault hasn’t been able to shine after a promising rookie season in 2020. He caught 58 passes for 600 yards with five scores that season. But he has revisited the end zone only one time since then.
Still, Shenault said he has confidence, according...
