5 Bills players helped by a reduced preseason schedule

Five members of the Buffalo Bills who could be helped by the canceled 2020 preseason.

Bills wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie. Credit: Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports

WR Isaiah McKenzie

There’s a lot of deep position groups on the Bills currently. That’s a great problem to have a quite frankly, that’s a problem that good teams tend to have. Depth creates competition for players, but again, the NFL game makes it hard to simulate when the bullets are really flying at you on game day.

In Buffalo’s wide receiver room, locks include the top-four players in Stefon Diggs, John Brown, Cole Beasley and as a fourth-round pick, Gabriel Davis is sitting pretty, too. Now beyond that, it’s a boatload of guys battling potentially for one or two spots. In recent memory under McDermott, the Bills have only carried five receivers, but with such a deep group, six is realistic possibility for once.

Going for those one or two spots are Isaiah Mckenzie, Duke Williams, Andre Roberts, Ray-Ray McCloud, Isaiah McKenzie, Robert Foster, and heck, even former undrafted rookie from a year ago, Nick Easley, had a pretty good training camp in 2019.

That’ll be some battle. But in McKenzie, he’s a flashy, Swiss-Army knife type of wideout which offensive coordinator Brian Daboll likes. Brown can do some of those things, but because McKenzie, like Brown, has proven he can do it already in game action so could have a leg up since these other guys won’t have a shot to prove they can do it in the preseason as well.

 

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