The Buffalo Payments have signed yet one more receiver, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, to reshape a place group that misplaced two starters, together with Stefon Diggs.
The Payments introduced the signing of the sixth-year participant to a one-year contract on Tuesday, a day after Valdes-Scantling visited the group for a exercise.
Listed at 6-foot-4 and 206 kilos, Valdes-Scantling is a two-time Tremendous Bowl champion after spending the previous two seasons with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, the place he mixed for 63 catches for 1,002 yards and three touchdowns. Amongst his most notable catches was a 16-yard TD reception in Kansas Metropolis’s 25-22 Tremendous Bowl win over San Francisco in February.
Chosen within the fifth spherical of the 2018 draft by Inexperienced Bay, he spent his first 4 seasons with the Packers, the place he had 123 catches for two,153 yards and 13 TDs.
The 29-year-old Valdes-Scantling goes from catching passes from Aaron Rodgers in Inexperienced Bay and Patrick Mahomes in Kansas Metropolis to Buffalo’s Josh Allen.
He joins what’s changing into a crowded receiver group of free brokers and castoffs the Payments have introduced on this offseason to offset the lack of Diggs, who was traded to Houston final month, and the free-agent departure of No. 2 receiver Gabe Davis.
The 2 mixed for 152 catches, 1,929 yards and 15 of Allen’s 29 landing passes final 12 months.
Buffalo used its prime draft decide to pick Florida State’s Keon Coleman at No. 33 final month.
Amongst Buffalo’s veteran free-agent offseason additions at receiver are Curtis Samuel, Mack Hollins, Chase Claypool and Quintez Cephus.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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