The Buffalo Bills needed help at wide receiver after the team traded Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans, and they got that help with the first pick in the second round, selecting Keon Coleman with the No. 33 overall pick. And it sounds like Josh Allen is happy about it.
During an interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio this week, Bills general manager Brandon Beane said that Josh Allen was “pretty pumped” by the team’s decision to draft Keon Coleman.
“Josh is crazy about the draft process. He loves it,” Beane said in the interview according to Pro Football Talk. “If I get a call from Josh in the offseason, it’s usually him seeing somebody on a highlight, running into somebody, throwing with somebody — just something to ask me what I think about this guy. He called me at the Senior Bowl [to ask] what do I think about a couple of guys there. So he loves it.
“He’s been in the building the last couple of weeks now that the offseason program’s started. So we did give him some guys, we said, ‘Hey, sit back with the coaches, y’all watch them together and talk about how you’d use them. I’d like to hear what you see.’ And he liked a lot of the guys, he really did. But Keon was one — I know he liked him a lot, too. And Josh and I didn’t speak Thursday, really. Maybe he stopped by that morning. But that next day, Friday morning, he FaceTimed me — actually I was still at home before I headed in here. And he was like, ‘What are you thinking?’ And I said, ‘Well, barring somebody blowing me away, I’m going to take Keon.’ And he was pretty pumped.”
We’ll have to see how the two perform together this season.
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