Six free agents Bills should target after their roster shakeup

Henry McKenna

AFC East Reporter

Josh Allen’s contract is showing.

The Buffalo Bills made a flurry of moves on Wednesday, which included the release of cornerback Tre’Davious White, safety Jordan Poyer, center Mitch Morse, cornerback Siran Neal, receiver Deonte Harty and running back Nyheim Hines. Those releases trace back, in large part, to the explosion of Allen’s deal from an $18.6 million cap hit to $47 million. And while it’s common to restructure a QB’s deal to borrow from the coming years, his hit in 2025 is even bigger ($56.5 million).

The Bills will want to be careful about how much they take from next year, when they’re set to have just $30 million in cap space, per overthecap.com. They already have the fifth-worst salary cap situation in 2025. That only gets worse if they restructure Allen’s deal this year.

This isn’t to say it’s a disaster. Allen is a great quarterback that the team should be happy to build around. But they’ll need money to keep building around him. It’s going to be a tricky offseason.

So the Bills might just be a little tight for cash this year and in coming years. Even with all of those releases, they might also find their way to a full depth chart — largely through the draft (where they have 10 picks and should get more through the compensatory pick formula) and the late phase of free agency (where they can find players willing to sign somewhere near the veteran minimum).

That makes it hard to predict who the team will sign, because it’s hard to predict who will sign early — and who will wait too long (ultimately missing their chance on the market). But here are six potential free-agent targets for Buffalo.

Yetur Gross-Matos, edge, Panthers

The priority should be to retain edge A.J. Epenesa, but he has shown enough on film that I think he will have plenty of interest when he hits the market. So after the dust settles, might Gross-Matos still be there? The Panthers probably want to…

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Publish date : 2024-03-07 20:22:16

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