Buffalo Bills wide receiver Khalil Shakir is confident in the team's ability to replicate the production vacated by Stefon Diggs.
The Buffalo Bills’ receiving corps has been the subject of much national discourse throughout the 2024 offseason not necessarily because of the players on the roster, but because of the pass-catchersBuffalo made significant alterations to its weapons group in the spring, allowing Gabriel Davis to depart as a free agent before trading its fourth-all-time leading wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans in early April.
The trade left Buffalo without a bonafide primary target, a hole it deliberately did not subsequently fill. The team instead hopes to take a more democratic approach to aerial production, now deploying a skilfully diverse weapons corps that Allen can spread the ball amongst proportionately as opposed to funneling the offense through a singular target.
“Obviously losing Stef, it’s Stefon Diggs, you know?” Shakir told reporters after Thursday’s training camp practice. “He’s a great athlete, great person, great dude to be around. We have so many moving pieces now that everybody can do everything. One moment somebody could be outside, but then the next they could move into the slot and another guy comes in and replaces him on the outside, you know? We’re not losing a step there.
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