Former Bills WR Stefon Diggs (14) - Rich Barnes/USA TODAY Sports
With parting ways with their #1 Wide Receiver, Stefon Diggs, it cleared up some cap space for them among other things to make the team better for the upcoming season.
What Team Will Receive the #1 Wide Receiver?
By trading their #1 Wide Receiver, the Bills also gave up a 2024 sixth-round pick and a 2025 fifth-round pick.
The Bills will only receive a second-round pick in 2025 from the Texans. Nevertheless, the Texans get a premiere #1 Wide Receiver who will be CJ Stroud’s safety blanket.
How This will Affect Their Salary Cap?
By trading Diggs before the June 1st deadline, the Bills will take on a $31 million dead cap charge in 2024. The former receiver is signed through 2027.
Plus, they have the option to go trade up in the upcoming draft and find their long-term solution at the #1 receiver spot.
Did the Bills Get Enough Back for the #1 Wide Receiver?
As die-hard Bills fans, we were hoping the team would get a decent return for him (like another first-round pick in 2024 or 2025).
In my opinion, however, the Bills got a raw deal. As a #1 Wide Receiver, Diggs is worth more than a second-round talent especially when it’s for next year’s draft.
Therefore, it is what it is and it adds to their draft picks in 2025 along with the compensatory pick they received for Leonard Floyd.
Who Should the Bills be Targeting Next?
If the Bills were feeling lucky, then they would bundle some of their multiple draft picks this year and trade up for either Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. or LSU’s Malik Nabers.
Both younger and older generations should know Marvin Harrison Jr’s bloodlines, as his father Marvin Harrison, Sr. balled out at Syracuse with Donavan McNabb.
Then, he went to the NFL with the Colts and became a Hall of Fame Wide Out.
As for Nabers, the last name would fit perfectly for us broadcasters.
If he made a spectacular catch or a touchdown, we could say, “It’s Malik Nabers making plays in the city of good neighbors”, (no pun intended).
The 30-year-old played his first five seasons with the Minnesota Vikings before being traded to Buffalo.
Diggs has totaled at least 100 catches in five of his last six years, while capturing the 1000-yards point in each of those seasons.
However, his workload did slip last season, due to the offense changing to a run-set scheme.
