They don’t want to lose their fastball. That was part of Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott’s explanation for the signing of wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders last offseason. The Bills know where their bread is buttered and it’s in the pass game throwing the ball to wide receivers. The team was surely hopeful that Gabriel Davis would be prepared for a larger role in 2021 (and his final game of the playoffs against the Kansas City Chiefs rewarded that thinking), but the team’s brass didn’t want to put all their eggs in that basket knowing how important wide receiver depth is to the success of franchise quarterback Josh Allen.
Opinion: What I think the Bills should do at slot receiver in the offseason
