The Buffalo Payments are signing veteran huge receiver Elijah Moore to a one-year deal value as much as $5 million, a supply informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
Moore, 25, caught a career-high 61 passes for 538 yards and one landing final season for the Cleveland Browns.
Moore can play a number of receiver spots and joins a bunch in Buffalo that features Joshua Palmer and Laviska Shenault Jr., who had been added in free company; 2024 second-round decide Keon Coleman; Khalil Shakir, who was signed to a four-year contract extension this offseason; and final 12 months’s free agent addition, Curtis Samuel.
The Payments additionally picked Kaden Prather out of Maryland within the seventh spherical Saturday, their solely choice at huge receiver within the draft.
Moore visited the Payments on Monday, the identical day normal supervisor Brandon Beane shared his frustration on WGR550, a neighborhood radio station, regarding the response to the staff not taking a large receiver increased within the draft.
“[Moore’s] a man we have spoken to some occasions main as much as the draft, and we simply sort of put a pin in it, similar to we did a number of different positions,” Beane stated in the course of the look. “… If we took a man within the first or second spherical, he is in all probability not too . However we did not, and so, you already know, we picked up these conversations over the weekend.”
Moore obtained the unrestricted free agent tender from Cleveland on Tuesday, which means he’ll rely towards the compensatory decide components for the 2026 NFL draft. If he did not signal with one other staff earlier than July 22, the Browns would have held his unique negotiating rights. The tender is value $3.428 million.
Moore joined the Browns in March 2023 after they traded a second-round decide to the New York Jets, who despatched the receiver and a third-round decide to Cleveland.
Throughout his two years with the Browns, Moore caught 120 passes for 1,178 yards and three touchdowns.
A second-round decide (No. 34) of the Jets within the 2021 NFL draft, Moore performed school soccer at Ole Miss. In 4 seasons, Moore has caught 200 passes for two,162 yards and 9 touchdowns.
ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg and Daniel Oyefusi contributed to this report.
