Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Beane acquires new WR just days after heated rant about how there was no need at the position
The Buffalo Bills are signing wide receiver Elijah Moore to a one-year, $5 million contract, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. This comes just two days after general manager Brandon Beane appeared on WGR 550 and went on a heated rant about the WR position not being a need for the team. Beane came under criticism for waiting […]
The Buffalo Bills are signing wide receiver Elijah Moore to a one-year, $5 million contract, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
This comes just two days after general manager Brandon Beane appeared on WGR 550 and went on a heated rant about the WR position not being a need for the team. Beane came under criticism for waiting until the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft to select a WR, despite it being perceived as one of Buffalo's weaker skill groups.
"I was just listening to last few minutes of your show before I came on," Beane said. "It sounds like 2018 all over [again] with you guys. You guys were bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wanted Josh Rosen. And now you guys are bitching that we don't have a receiver. I don't get it, like….hold on, let me talk. We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games. A year ago, I get you guys asking why we didn't have receivers, but I don't understand it now. You just saw us lead the league in points. When you add [in] the postseason, no one scored more points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions. So you just saw us do it without Stefon Diggs."
Funnily enough, it was later that day that Beane brought Moore in for a visit. A former second round pick of the New York Jets in 2021, Moore has spent the last two years with the Cleveland Browns. Following Moore's visit with Buffalo, the Browns quickly placed an unrestricted free agent tender on him.
That means that Cleveland will likely get a compensatory draft pick from the Bills in 2026. Moore is coming off productive back-to-back seasons with the Browns, especially when you consider the level of quarterback play he had to deal with. In 2023 he set a career-high in receiving yards with 640, and in 2024 Moore recorded a career-high 61 catches. He now gets to play with an MVP QB in Josh Allen and will provide Buffalo with some needed at WR.
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