SI Article on Trades That Should Happen (a few Bills ones)

[RyanC883]

https://www.si.com/nfl/one-trade-every-nfl-team-should-make-before-the-2025-deadline

 

Interesting article.  On the Bills front, this article would have us acquiring CB Alontae Taylor from the Saints for a 4th, and WR Jakobi Meyers from Vegas for a 4th (although it also has Meyers goign to Arizona for a 4th).  It has us trading Dawson Knox to, of all places, Carolina for a 5th.  

 

I know nothing about Taylor, but we need CB help, and Meyers would add some boundry juice to the WR room.  Don't like losing Knox, but if it clears cap space that's fine.  Otherwise I see little reason for the move.  

 

Thoughts?

 

Other players on the move in this article I'd like to see the Bills go after include: 

 

--DT Simmons; DE Hendrickson; and RB Kamara or Pollard. 

 

I think we need to strengthen the interior DL, add a CB, and a backup RB at the deadline.  WR would be nice, but as we are scroing 30+ a game, not sure how necessary at this juncture.  

 

 

[Low Positive]

I read that. I assume that all these trades are occurring in a vacuum, because otherwise the Saints would have trouble fielding a team. but seriously, I like the idea of flipping a pick for a half year of Hendrickson. Pass rushers, unlike DBs and WRs, are pretty much plug and play. 

[Pecker]

I think with Hairston and strong we are fine at CB.  Hendrickson is interesting, when Burrow went down, Bengals season ended.  Hendrickson is on a one year deal where they can’t franchise him I believe.  So, what’s he worth? Could the bengals eat some salary as part of the deal?  Just some thoughts that came to me. 

[Einstein]

Knox is more valuable to us this year than a 5th.

[RichRiderBills]

My opinion on running back: I would probably wait till the very deadline to make a move seeing as how quick they get hurt.

 

I would also probably kick the tires on Gore Jr prior to making this move. He's been flat productive and good in significant preseason time. 

 

Additionally, I'd like to give Ray Davis just some more handoffs before even doing that. It's amazing how low his volume has been. It begs the question of how his performance has been in practice. 

 

I don't think the bills will go after kamara he's way overpriced. Not sure what Pollard makes but I think it's pretty hefty as well. 

Edited 22 hours ago by RichRiderBills

[UKBillFan]

1 minute ago, Einstein said:

Knox is more valuable to us this year than a 5th.

 

Yes. To start with, I can imagine Josh's reaction and the key thing to begin with is keeping him happy.

Edited 22 hours ago by UKBillFan

[MJS]

We already have receivers the same caliber as Meyers. No thanks. Why would we trade Knox for a 5th round pick? Especially since the 3 TE set has been so successful and he is a big part of that. That makes no sense. We already have guys coming off of suspension to help at DT and DE. We're not going to swing for a big name, so what's the point?

 

We could add a corner, I guess.

[GunnerBill]

I don't like any of those ideas for the Bills.

[Low Positive]

5 minutes ago, ***** said:

I think with Hairston and strong we are fine at CB.  Hendrickson is interesting, when Burrow went down, Bengals season ended.  Hendrickson is on a one year deal where they can’t franchise him I believe.  So, what’s he worth? Could the bengals eat some salary as part of the deal?  Just some thoughts that came to me. 

Mike Brown would rather trade his whole salary for a 2030 7th than eat 1/8 of it to trade him for a 2026 2nd. 

Just now, GunnerBill said:

I don't like any of those ideas for the Bills.

Who do you like that's on a bad team that might be available? 

[GASabresIUFan]

We have no cap space.

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

13 minutes ago, RichRiderBills said:

My opinion on running back: I would probably wait till the very deadline to make a move seeing as how quick they get hurt.

 

I would also probably kick the tires on Gore Jr prior to making this move. He's been flat productive and good in significant preseason time. 

 

Additionally, I'd like to give Ray Davis just some more handoffs before even doing that. It's amazing how low his volume has been. It begs the question of how his performance has been in practice. 

 

I don't think the bills will go after kamara he's way overpriced. Not sure what Pollard makes but I think it's pretty hefty as well. 

Toward the end of the Josh Allen mic’d up video there’s footage of Ray Davis in the huddle and he looks very little like the short/stout RB we saw last year, almost like a non-athlete. I wonder if he actually lost more like 20-25 lbs instead of the 15 that’s been cited.  A pretty grievous mistake on his part in my opinion.

[GunnerBill]

8 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

 

Who do you like that's on a bad team that might be available? 

 

If I am living in reality Xavier Woods at safety from Tennessee maybe. I liked him as a low cost vet option in FA though abd if the Bills had been interested maybe they do it then? Jeffrey Simmons also from the Titans if cap space etc is no blocker.

[Alphadawg7]

27 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/one-trade-every-nfl-team-should-make-before-the-2025-deadline

 

Interesting article.  On the Bills front, this article would have us acquiring CB Alontae Taylor from the Saints for a 4th, and WR Jakobi Meyers from Vegas for a 4th (although it also has Meyers goign to Arizona for a 4th).  It has us trading Dawson Knox to, of all places, Carolina for a 5th.  

 

I know nothing about Taylor, but we need CB help, and Meyers would add some boundry juice to the WR room.  Don't like losing Knox, but if it clears cap space that's fine.  Otherwise I see little reason for the move.  

 

Thoughts?

 

Other players on the move in this article I'd like to see the Bills go after include: 

 

--DT Simmons; DE Hendrickson; and RB Kamara or Pollard. 

 

I think we need to strengthen the interior DL, add a CB, and a backup RB at the deadline.  WR would be nice, but as we are scroing 30+ a game, not sure how necessary at this juncture.  

 

 

Justin Simmons is the name that stands out to me.  Can’t see us adding a RB right now, we still have Gore on the PS who stood out in preseason too if we needed another body.  
 

Hendrickson also stands out, but not sure if they can make him work with the cap, but no doubt he could help.

[HappyDays]

No thanks to more defensive help. Enough is enough. We spent our first 4 draft picks and most of our FA money on that side of the ball. We still have Hoecht coming back plus Oliver returning from injury plus Hairston hopefully will be back at some point. Make it work with the group they have.

 

An underrated problem in the past two games is our offense has stalled out a bit after successful early drives. They've had opportunities to blow the doors off our opponents and build an insurmountable lead but couldn't deliver. So I'd be very interested in a field stretching WR. The name I've thrown out a couple times is Rashid Shaheed who is on a 1 year deal. Maybe a RB2 would intrigue me if the team is ready to move on from Davis, Cook getting too many touches worries me a bit.

[TheWeatherMan]

25 minutes ago, MJS said:

We already have receivers the same caliber as Meyers. No thanks. Why would we trade Knox for a 5th round pick? Especially since the 3 TE set has been so successful and he is a big part of that. That makes no sense. We already have guys coming off of suspension to help at DT and DE. We're not going to swing for a big name, so what's the point?

 

We could add a corner, I guess.

The only reason you trade Knox is for cap space, which I’m sure the savings would be negligible this year. 

[sven233]

Big fan of Alontae Taylor.  I'd make that trade now if it could be done.

 

They are not trading Knox.  This TE room has the perfect blend happening right now.  What they have them doing in the run game, coupled with what Hawes and Knox are doing opening up things for Kincaid is working great.  They are more likely to restructure or even extend Knox next year than trade him this year.  I think they have the perfect TE mix right now and there is no way I am messing with it.

 

I would love to get a dominant run stuffing DT in here.  But Beane hasn't really shown the same interest in a run stuffer that I have.  A better backup RB would be nice, but I don't think they do anything there either.  The next few weeks might tell us a lot about what we need going into the trade deadline.  Gotta get some injured and suspended guys back and put it all on the field to see what it looks like.  But if the Saints want to trade Alontae Taylor, I'll do that right now.  In fact, what would it cost to steal one of their WRs?  Olave or Shaheed would be PERFECT additions to our WR room.

[harmonkillebrew]

Pass rush is (still) our Achilles heal.

We need to go all in on finding someone. This year is the year.

[finn]

I'd trade both Epenesa and Knox for Jonas Sanker, the Saints CB who knocked down one Allen pass then intercepted his next one after sprinting across the field. He was amazing, especially for a rookie. 

[Pete]

36 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

Toward the end of the Josh Allen mic’d up video there’s footage of Ray Davis in the huddle and he looks very little like the short/stout RB we saw last year, almost like a non-athlete. I wonder if he actually lost more like 20-25 lbs instead of the 15 that’s been cited.  A pretty grievous mistake on his part in my opinion.

I’m sure no coach told Ray to lose weight and get faster.  Why would Ray think that was a good idea?  Ray should have gotten thicker.  He had his role, now we could use a bigger back.  Bad move Ray 

[djp14150]

1 hour ago, RyanC883 said:

https://www.si.com/nfl/one-trade-every-nfl-team-should-make-before-the-2025-deadline

 

Interesting article.  On the Bills front, this article would have us acquiring CB Alontae Taylor from the Saints for a 4th, and WR Jakobi Meyers from Vegas for a 4th (although it also has Meyers goign to Arizona for a 4th).  It has us trading Dawson Knox to, of all places, Carolina for a 5th.  

 

I know nothing about Taylor, but we need CB help, and Meyers would add some boundry juice to the WR room.  Don't like losing Knox, but if it clears cap space that's fine.  Otherwise I see little reason for the move.  

 

Thoughts?

 

Other players on the move in this article I'd like to see the Bills go after include: 

 

--DT Simmons; DE Hendrickson; and RB Kamara or Pollard. 

 

I think we need to strengthen the interior DL, add a CB, and a backup RB at the deadline.  WR would be nice, but as we are scroing 30+ a game, not sure how necessary at this juncture.  

 

 

Meyers is nothing special.  
 

hendreckson …sure if the cap can be done.

 

buffalo probably could pluck a decent RB from a PS if needed.