Bills' Receiver Room 'Really Coming Together'

The 2024 season will perhaps be Josh Allen's most interesting as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. Why, you say? His receiver unit will have many new faces.

With Chase Claypool, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Mack Hollins, Keon Coleman, and Curtis Samuel brought in to help cover the loss of Gabriel Davis and Stefon Diggs, Allen has a different group to work with.

Khalil Shakir (the only WR to catch a pass from Allen last year) looms as a potential WR1 candidate. With so much unknown about what the unit could do in 2024, receivers coach Adam Henry has liked what the group has done in the offseason thus far.

"The vibe is really good [in the receiver room], because the way I see it, receivers, they all play a certain part, and they're all not the same, and so that's what makes it great," Henry said via ESPN. "And so, there's a lot of experience in there just to pull 'em to the side. ... The room is really coming together and just creating a culture."

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Naturally, there will be growing pains early in the season as Allen develops a rapport and chemistry with his new receivers, but the Bills, in a stacked AFC East division, can't afford too many slip-ups.

The New York Jets, now with a healthy Aaron Rodgers, a fortified offensive line, and another weapon in Mike Williams, loom large. So, too, do the Miami Dolphins, who added Odell Beckham Jr. this offseason.

But with Allen at the helm, it is hoped that he can do similar work to what Patrick Mahomes did last season with a less-than-ideal supporting case and elevate them.

Time will tell if Allen can do that, but the chemistry is being built and Henry likes where his group currently sits.