the plan is to win the SB and to do that you need as many quality players as possible. The Niners and Chiefs both have more high end players than the Bills. This would be a chance to add one
they also likely didn’t expect one of the best safeties, a 4 time All-Pro to suddenly become a free agent. & as pointed out above he has Mahomes # more than anyone
Gabe Davis just got around that. Ridley is far superior overall
Now if we wanted Ridley bad enough we could structure a deal to bring his cap hit this season down to 10-12