After shipping Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans for a 2025 second-round pick, it’s no secret that wide receiver is the Buffalo Bills’ biggest area of need heading into the 2024 NFL Draft.
The departures of Diggs and Gabriel Davis leave newly signed Curtis Samuel, Khalil Shakir and Mack Hollins at the top of Buffalo’s WR depth chart. Competing against the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens, that’s not going to cut it.
Here are two moves the Bills should make to not only overhaul their WR room but arguably come out of it in better shape than they were last season.
But as was demonstrated in the trade that sent cornerback L’Jarius Sneed from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Tennessee Titans for a 2024 seventh-round pick and 2025 third-round pick, trading a player that’s due a massive contract extension lessens the value of what comes back in return.
Sneed signed four-year, $76.4M extension with the Titans, which is why a third-rounder was the best the Chiefs were going to get. Spotrac projects Higgins to sign a similar four-year, $74M extension, so recouping a second-rounder next season may be a deal the Bengals simply can’t say no to.
The Atlanta Falcons paid a similar price back in 2011 to move up and draft Julio Jones, and that worked out fine for them. Atlanta moved from 27th overall to sixth overall, and surrendered its first- and fourth-rounders the following year plus second- and fourth-rounders that year.
