Keon

Coleman

Coleman missed Weeks 10-14 due to the issue and remained on the Bills’ injury report when he returned to action in Week 15. A prior report indicated Coleman suffered some sort of fracture, but details on the issue have been difficult to come by. The injury was a tough break for a player who notched consecutive career-best performances in Week 7 (125 receiving yards) and Week 8 (five receptions) and was coming into his own. Whether Coleman can blossom into an impact-starter in year two remains to be seen, but the report contextualizes his late-season struggles. Per Sabato, Coleman “looked like a different player during minicamps” this spring.

Buscaglia points to the fact that Coleman was already on the field for the majority of snaps before hurting his wrist in Week 9, and then adds that the receivers the Bills added this offseason are “not direct competitors” for Coleman’s role at X receiver. “If Coleman doesn’t face much competition for that spot, there is a distinct possibility his on-field role could rise from his already lofty 70 percent. More time on the field means more potential target opportunities, especially if his separation skills improve slightly in the offseason,” Buscaglia continues. Coleman is currently being drafted outside of the top-100 picks in most offseason fantasy football formats and does have an intriguing profile even if his rookie year was disappointing.

He also drew a five-yard defensive pass interference penalty. Critics raved about the idea to throw a third-and-goal back-shoulder fade to Coleman on the goal line with 6:23 left, with reviews like “baffling” and “I hate goal line fades.” Coleman managed to catch just 29 of his 57 targets this year, finishing his rookie year with a 29/556/4 receiving line. He’ll likely at least start as one of Buffalo’s outside receivers in 2025, but between the lack of passes the Bills are throwing and the drops Coleman showed in 2024, he’s probably best approached as a sleeper in 2025 drafts. That’s not to say he can’t become more than this, but the shape of “more” is going to have to involve improvement from the young receiver to be fantasy-relevant.

Coleman did little in the box score but had a big impact on the game just before halftime, miraculously avoiding an offensive pass interference call while pushing Ravens cornerback Tre’Davious White down to the ground near the Ravens’ own 12-yard line. White mildly reacted to Coleman mid-fall and somehow earned himself a defensive pass interference call. Josh Allen ran the ball in for a four-yard touchdown three plays later. Coleman is a boom/bust DFS flex option against the Chiefs.

The Bills wanted to keep their rookie on the field in Week 18 since he missed five weeks due to injury just a short time ago. Coleman was targeted aggressively down the field by both Mitchell Trubisky and Mike White, but he was unable to win any of his jump balls. Some of that can be attributed to the inaccurate passes he was seeing from two backup quarterbacks, but Coleman was also going up against reserve cornerbacks and wasn’t able to win his contested catches. With a fully healthy receiving corps, Coleman should be operating behind Khalil Shakir, Amari Cooper, and Dalton Kincaid in the postseason, but the Bills will hope he can come down with some of those tough catches in the playoffs.

Coleman led Bills receivers with 63 snaps and came close to an explosive week as he dropped a sideline pass that would have gone for another 30 yards and saw a Josh Allen end zone target go low enough for Sauce Gardner to defense it early. The rookie remains unreliable and it’s likely that the extended playing time happened because of the score, but the volume and upside might make him the best playoff best ball pick in Buffalo’s receiver corps not named Khalil Shakir.

The Bills’ four-player wide receiver rotation creates a fantasy-friendly environment for Josh Allen and a fantasy-unfriendly situation for the team’s wide receivers. Coleman is currently stuck in the No. 3 and contributes in a volatile manner accordingly. He will have slightly better big-play odds against the Jets next week.

It wasn’t a high-usage game for Coleman in his first game back since injurying his wrist in Week 9, but he made a huge play by getting open deep when Josh Allen was rolling out of the pocket in the third quarter. His long catch set up a crucial Bills’ score to take control of the game. There should be better games on the horizon, but Coleman is a touchdown-dependent WR3 in fantasy leagues because of how many options there are in the Bills’ passing game.

The tight end was questionable coming into this game, but he’ll be back on the field for the first time since suffering a knee injury in Week 10 against the Colts. Keon Coleman will also be returning for Buffalo, which is great news since most of their secondary is now hurt and this week’s game against the Lions figures to be a shootout. Kincaid is an upside TE2.

After logging a full week of practice, Coleman will officially come off the Bills’ injury report and won’t carry an injury designation into Sunday’s game against the Lions. The rookie receiver had amassed 10-216-1 over his last three games prior to suffering his wrist injury in Week 9, and should slot back in as a starter on the outside. Coleman profiles as a WR3/WR4 in a game that is expected to feature a lot of points.