Bills head coach Joe Brady, quarterback Josh Allen and others in Buffalo have been steadfast in their support of wide receiver Keon Coleman since team owner Terry Pegula’s comments about him after the team’s playoff loss, but Coleman knows that there’s a point where that support will come to an end.
Coleman was a second-round pick in 2024, but has underwhelmed on the field and landed on the bench more than once for disciplinary reasons over his first two seasons. On Tuesday, Coleman said he knows that this is a “make or break” season for him in Buffalo and that he could be off the team if he doesn’t produce at a higher level.
“I know what I’m capable of, so if I fall anything short of that I’m doing myself a disservice,” Coleman said, via Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN.com.
Coleman has 67 catches for 960 yards and eight touchdowns in 26 games with the Bills. DJ Moore and Khalil Shakir are likely to be the top two wideouts this season, which will leave him to compete with players like Josh Palmer and fourth-round pick Skyler Bell for a chance to show that he can live up to early expectations.
After consecutive years of leading the Bears in receiving, DJ Moore’s production dipped in 2025.
But now Moore is back with a coach who helped him get to one of his most productive seasons, as the Bills traded for him in March — reuniting him with his former offensive coordinator, Joe Brady.
As it turns out, he’s reuniting with quarterback Josh Allen, too, though not necessarily in the traditional way.
“We go, actually, way back,” Allen said in his Tuesday press conference. “We sat next to each other at the rookie premiere, signing Panini cards and autograph cards next to each other. … So, [we were] getting some good conversations back then.
“It’s pretty cool to have him here now.”
Moore hasn’t been on the field with Allen for long, but the two are establishing chemistry. Allen noted that he can already tell Moore is a great teammate.
“He’s really one of the guys,” Allen said. “Obviously, it’s a really natural relationship that we have. Fits in this locker room extremely well, very talkative with the guys. And just very excited to work with him.”
Plus, unlike last year, Allen won’t have to establish chemistry with a key receiver on the fly.
“[Y]ou’re able to do more [in OTAs], to see what works and what doesn’t,” Allen said. “Obviously, again, we go out there, we make mistakes — which is going to happen. Chalk it up to the first couple days of OTAs and be like, hey, we like this, we don’t like this.
“And, again, just continue to work on it and find ways that we can learn how to complement each other and just build that chemistry and camaraderie.”
Moore caught 50 passes for 682 yards with six touchdowns for the Bears last season. In 2020 — his one full season with Brady as his play-caller for the Panthers — Moore finished with 66 receptions for 1,193 yards with four TDs.
Josh Allen said after last season that he would return in time for organized team activities despite offseason foot surgery. He was true to his word.
Allen is participating in the Bills’ offseason program.
“You guys know Josh,” head coach Joe Brady said, via Sal Capaccio of WGR 550. “He’s good to go.”
Allen underwent surgery at the end of January to remove a loose bone chip from his right foot, which he injured in a Week 16 game against the Browns.
Allen’s presence will give him plenty of time to get to know new wide receiver DJ Moore. The Bills traded a second-round pick to the Bears for Moore, who is Buffalo’s new No. 1 receiver.
On September 17, the legendary Al Michaels will call the first game at yet another stadium, when the Bills christen their new home against the Lions. It will be the tenth time Michaels has cut the ribbon on a new venue.
“This was a game Amazon really pushed for because it would be so cool to open a stadium, and it’s also another Zelig moment for me,” Michaels told Richard Deitsch of Sports Business Journal. “In my career at NBC and at Disney, I did the regular season opener in Foxboro [Gillette Stadium]. It was John Madden and I and that was our first game together. We opened up the Linc in Philadelphia. We did the first game in Dallas at Jerry World. I did the first game when they refurbished Soldier Field in Chicago. I did the first regular season game at Levi’s Stadium. And Chris Collinsworth and I opened up SoFi Stadium in 2020, the pandemic year. It was Dallas at the Rams with no fans.”
There will be plenty of fans in the building for the first true Thursday night game of 2026. (Unless hantavirus becomes a thing. Or Ebola.)
“We know how passionate that fan base is in Buffalo and they’ve been able to weather through, in a manner of speaking, all of those years at what used to be Rich Stadium,” Michaels said. “There’s going to be a tremendous buzz going on in that community. I mean, the renderings look beautiful. So that is going to be a fantastic night in Buffalo.”
Michaels also worked the first games at the current stadiums in Atlanta, Minnesota, and Indianapolis.
After finishing the last season of his three-year contract with Prime Video, Michaels and Amazon decided to keep it going for 2025 and, now, for 2026.
“It’s tough to walk away,” Michaels said. “But I do know one thing: If I walk away, I’m going to do it the way John Madden did it and just say, ‘It’s time.’ I don’t need any sort of tour or whatever.”
Frankly, it doesn’t feel like football season has started until I hear Al’s voice. And football season will never feel the same, for me and many others, once Al decides to walk away.
Steve Tasker, a seven-time Pro Bowl special-teamer with the Bills, will be back with the team in 2026.
Via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing, Tasker will become the sideline reporter for the radio broadcasts of the team’s games.
The change comes as the games move from WGR 550 to WGRF-FM, which was the flagship station from 1998 through 2011. Tasker replaces Sal Capaccio of WGR, who had the assignment for 12 years.
Chris Brown will continue as the play-by-play announcer, with former Bills center Eric Wood providing analysis.
A ninth-round pick of the Houston Oilers in 1985, the 64-year-old Tasker was released by Houston during the 1986 season. The Bills claimed him on waivers; he played in Buffalo through 1997.
Tasker promptly landed at CBS, where he worked from 1998 through 2018. He’s now working directly for the team with which he served as a key contributor during four straight runs to the Super Bowl.
