Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen already sees signs of a great wide receiver in rookie Keon Coleman.
The hope for a franchise when investing a premium draft pick into a player is that they’ll develop into a franchise cornerstone, a pillar who will be with the team for the foreseeable future and help it find consistent on-field success.
This is certainly the type of hope that the Buffalo Bills have with regard to Keon Coleman, a 6-foot-4 wide receiver whom it selected with the 33rd overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. A team, generally speaking, always has lofty aspirations for its second-round draft picks, but those that Buffalo holds for Coleman are perhaps a bit more imposing than those of the average second-rounder given that the 21-year-old projects as the immediate centerpiece of the team’s receiving corps.
Buffalo parted ways with 1,929 receiving yards from a year ago this spring by letting Stefon Diggs and Gabriel Davis leave One Bills Drive; Coleman, alongside free agent signee Curtis Samuel and third-year wideout Khalil Shakir, is expected to account for a significant portion of the vacated yardage, currently projecting as the team’s X wide receiver. Though the wideout is immensely talented , it’s going to take time—and reps—for him to learn how to consistently win at the professional level.
“That’s fun to be around. You’ve got a guy that’s young and eager—just turned 21—who has a lot to learn in this game, a lot to learn to be a good player in this league, but I think he has the tools necessary to do that and hopefully we can utilize his abilities.” “He’s got some lofty goals as a rookie, and that’s such a good thing,” Allen said. “He wants to come in and help this team win football games. Each day on the field, he’s quite the opposite .
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