Amari Cooper trade: Buffalo Bills Championship, Division, Playoff odds after adding veteran WR

Rusty Gorelick Updated: Oct 15 2024 18:44

The Buffalo Bills completed a trade for wide receiver Amari Cooper on Tuesday, just hours after their division rival New York Jets acquired Davante Adams.

Cooper joins Buffalo from the Cleveland Browns, where he caught 24 passes for 250 yards and two TDs through six games this season. That said, he leads the league in drops with nine, almost double that of the receivers in second place with five drops.

The Browns are 1-5 at the time of the trade, while the Bills are 4-2. Cooper will join a locker room with a winning culture and he will not be relied upon as heavily in a well-rounded Bills offense.

While the Bills are better than the Browns overall, Buffalo still ranks second-to-last in pass attempts this season with 159 and is 25th out of 32 NFL teams in passing yards with 1,118. Cooper, a five-time Pro Bowler, will help the team improve those numbers if he cuts down on the drops.

Buffalo has three receivers with over 200 yards this season - Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman and tight end Dalton Kincaid - but the talk surrounding the team in the preseason was how they would cope without Stefon Diggs, who they traded to the Houston Texans.

The Bills have done just fine without Diggs, but getting Cooper for a third-round pick is an example of Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane trying to go all-in for a championship. The transaction did see Buffalo's odds move slightly in the outright market, from +1000 earlier Tuesday to +900 after the trade.

Let's take a look at what the Bills' odds and lines look like after adding Cooper.