The Buffalo Payments are prone to characteristic a potent passing assault in 2024, they usually’ll have to take action with out a confirmed WR1 within the combine.
After buying and selling away Stefon Diggs and declining to re-sign Gabe Davis, the Payments have seemingly chosen a subscription to the idea that the entire is bigger than the sum of the components. Though confirmed able to being an efficient technique, it actually will not assist the fantasy soccer worth of Buffalo’s particular person extensive receivers.
Working again James Cook dinner’s potential to turn out to be a receiver and the presence of tight ends Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox solely reduce the fantasy draft inventory for the Payments’ wideouts. Sports activities Illustrated’s preliminary position-by-position participant rankings weren’t precisely type to the Buffalo receiving corps. In truth, the Payments don’t have a High 45 participant on the place, based on SI fantasy guru Michael Fabiano’s listing.
Rookie Keon Coleman ranks highest (No. 47 general) amongst WR fantasy choices on the Payments’ roster. The tall goal led the ACC in landing receptions (11) final yr.
Free-agent addition Curtis Samuel, who might probably thrive below offensive coordinator Joe Brady, landed within the No. 54 slot. The soon-to-be 28-year-old Samuel totaled 1,051 scrimmage yards in his one season in Brady’s scheme with the 2020 Carolina Panthers.
Third-year professional Khalil Shakir, the lone present Payments’ WR to have caught a go from quarterback Josh Allen in an NFL recreation, sits at No. 70 general, which interprets right into a bench participant in 12-team fantasy leagues.
Fabiano additionally labeled the highest WR prospects into 12 tiers with CeeDee Lamb,
Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Ja’Marr Chase comprising “Tier 1 — The Elite.”
For the Payments, Coleman wound up in “Tier 10 — Excessive WR4s” adopted by Samuel in “Tier 11 — Mid WR4s.”
