Trent Sherfield is aiming to secure a roster spot with the Buffalo Bills in his second tour with the team. With fourteen wide receivers currently in camp, Sherfield, a veteran, will need to prove his worth not only as a receiver but also on special teams to make the final 53-man roster. His contract details and a look back at his previous season with the Denver Broncos are also provided
For the last four seasons, Mitch Fraboni has been the Bronco long snapper (he was the LS for part of 2022). Long snappers are critical, but forgotten parts of every football team. Like offensive linemen, they only get noticed if they screw up. Mitch is not only a competent long snapper, but he is also a decent tackler, getting anywhere from four to six tackles on punt coverage every season. Mitch had four tackles (3.5) last season on 75 punts – only 29 of which were returned. The leader on punt tackles for the Denver Broncos last season was JL Skinner with 5.5. Position : LS | 6-2, 223lb (188cm, 101kg) Player 2025 tackle on punts by Broncos JL Skinner 5.5 Devon Key 4.0 Adam Prentice 3.5 Mitch Fraboni 3.5 Dondrea Tillman 2.5 Garett Wallow 1.5 Tyler Badie 1.5 Justin Strnad 1.5 Trent Sherfield 1.0 Nat Adkins 1.0 PJ Locke 1.0 Reese Taylor 1.0 Adam Trautman 0.5 Jeremy Crawshaw 0.5 Admittedly only the gunners and the long snapper can be downfield before the punt is away, but Mitch is still an asset as a tackler on punt coverage
Stephen Gosnell, a 24-year-old wide receiver, signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2025. He spent last season on the practice squad after being waived in preseason and has a reserve/future contract for 2026. Gosnell is competing for a roster spot among a crowded group of 14 wide receivers
The Bills are feeling the pressure of becoming another one of sports’ great also-rans. There is one team in the NFL that has won more games than the Bills over the last decade. Their .640 winning percentage and 105-59 record trails only the Chiefs since 2016. However, the Chiefs have five Super Bowl appearances and four wins in that span, and the Bills have none of either. Can a new leader at the helm and two new offensive weapons on the perimeter help get the Bills the title that has eluded them? Points per game: 28.3 (4th) Total yards per game: 376.3 (4th) Plays per game: 63.6 (28th) Dropbacks per game: 37.1 (23rd) Dropback EPA per play: 0.23 (4th) Designed rush attempts per game: 29.8 (2nd) Rush EPA per play: 0.04 (2nd) Perhaps feeling the pressure to do something different to get over the hump, the team fired longtime head coach Sean McDermott in the offseason and turned the reins over to his offensive coordinator, Joe Brady. At 36 years old, Brady is now the youngest head coach in the NFL and will be thrown right into one of the most high-pressure jobs in the league. Josh Allen is now 30 years old (and a new father), and the Bills are feeling the heat to maximize their potential while their quarterback can still perform the athletic feats that have made him one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks. Can Brady be the young voice that gets them over the top? QB: Josh Allen, Kyle Allen WR: DJ Moore , Keon Coleman WR: Khalil Shakir , Skyler Bell WR: Joshua Palmer , Trent Sherfield TE: Dalton Kincaid , Dawson Knox , Jackson Hawes As with everything in the Bills’ offense, the passing game discussions begin and end with Josh Allen . The 2024 NFL MVP had another good season, completing 319-of-460 passes (69.3 percent) for 3,668 yards with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also added another 579 yards rushing and 14 touchdowns on the ground, becoming the franchise’s leader in rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns. Yet, despite that, he also threw for his fewest yards since 2019 and averaged a career-low 7.1 yards per target. In fact, a career-high 65 percent of his attempts traveled fewer than 10 yards downfield, so his career-high 69.3 percent completion rate was more because of how short Buffalo had to design its passing game. With Brady now calling plays for his own offense and not to fit the balanced style that McDermott favored, it makes sense that we would see the offense try to push the ball down the field more. However, a higher average depth of target will likely mean that the completion rate takes a hit, and the interception numbers could climb back up around 14-15. Still, that could be worth the tradeoff if we get back to a 4,000 passing yard and 30 passing touchdown season. Of course, getting Allen weapons has also been a big conversation. Last season, the Bills didn’t have one wide receiver who surpassed 750 yards. Keon Coleman failed to take a step forward in his second season. Veteran Curtis Samuel and Josh Palmer battled injuries all year, and Khalil Shakir was forced into a role as a YAC monster. So what did the Bills do in the offseason? They brought in Pete Carmichael, who spent the majority of his coaching career coaching one of the most productive passing attacks in NFL history with Drew Brees in New Orleans , and traded a second-round pick to acquire DJ Moore . Now, Moore only had 50 receptions for 682 yards and six touchdowns in 2025 with the Bears, but that was a team that was moving towards featuring young players like Rome Odunze , Luther Burden III , and Colston Loveland . When Brady was the Panthers’ offensive coordinator in 2020, he led the first offense in franchise history with four different players who had over 1,000 scrimmage yards, including Moore, who led the team with 1,215. Moore won’t need to be that player in Buffalo, but he can still be an outside threat that can make defenses pay if they leave him in single coverage. That could still lead to 1,000 yards and eight or more touchdo
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Today’s edition of “91 Buffalo Bills players in 91 days” was supposed to cover cornerback Daryl Porter Jr. However, as is the fickle nature of the NFL, Porter was released on June 1. I had assumed that Porter had little chance of making the final roster, hence his early placement in the series, but his release came even sooner than I had anticipated. Now, we turn our focus instead to the man who replaced Porter on the 91-man roster. He doesn’t play defense — he’s a wide receiver — but he is an intriguing young prospect, and someone whose name flows very well with the most annoying dance craze of the 1990s. Without further adieu, let’s talk about a former Fresno State Bulldog looking to make his mark in the NFL. _____________________________________________________________________________ Name: Mac Dalena Number: Unknown Position: WR Height/Weight: 5’10”, 180 pounds Age: 24 (25 on 10/4/2026) Experience/Draft: 1; signed with the Kansas City Chiefs following the 2025 NFL Draft College: Fresno State Acquired: Signed with Bills on 6/1/2026 Financial situation (per Spotrac): Unknown, but I assume it’s a one-year deal at the minimum, which is approximately $885,000 for the season. 2025 Recap: Dalena spent the offseason and preseason with the Chiefs last year. In three preseason games, he saw four targets and made two catches for nine yards. He did not make the final roster, nor did he sign with Kansas City’s practice squad. He eventually landed with the Seattle Seahawks , signing with their practice squad on November 4. He was released from the practice squad just four days later. The New York Jets signed Dalena to a reserve/future contract in January, but they released him on May 10. Positional outlook: Dalena is one of 13 receivers on the current roster. Khalil Shakir , DJ Moore , Tyrell Shavers , Joshua Palmer , Keon Coleman , Stephen Gosnell, Trent Sherfield , Mecole Hardman Jr., Gabriel Benyard, Skyler Bell, Ja’Mori Maclin, and Jalen Virgil are the others. 2026 Offseason: Dalena just signed with Buffalo, but he is healthy and ready to participate in minicamp and training camp. 2026 Season outlook: Dalena offers some promise as a slot receiver, as he’s definitely quick enough to operate in that area of the field despite his lack of size. At his pro day in 2024, Dalena ran a 4.43-second 40-yard dash, and completed the three-cone drill in just 6.89 seconds. He also showed off a 38.5” vertical and a 10’5” leap in the broad jump. Dalena has a small frame and short arms, so he doesn’t offer much in the way of contested-catch value, but he does offer enough speed and quickness where he could parlay a strong summer into a stint on Buffalo’s practice squad. I say “practice squad” and not the 53-man roster because there isn’t anything to suggest that the Bills will go with a soon-to-be 25-year-old as one of the final wideouts who makes the roster, and nor should they. This is a Buffalo team that needs to be in win-now mode, and unless Dalena comes in and sets the practice field on fire against the first-team defense, he isn’t going to make the team. Could he slot in as a potential backup for Shakir? He may show enough promise in head coach Joe Brady’s offense where that could be a long-term goal, but Dalena is unlikely to be a solution for the team in the short-term. Dalena has proven that he can be a difference-maker on offense before. As a senior at Fresno State, he caught 64 passes for 1,065 yards and eight scores. He led the Bulldogs in all three categories. For his efforts, Dalena was named a Second-Team All-American by HERO Sports, and he was also First-Team All-Mountain West. If Dalena wants to prove his mettle, he’ll have to compete on special teams and show that his field-stretching speed outweighs his slight stature. He’s likely a camp body, but he could be a fun player to watch during the summer if he finds some open field
The Buffalo Bills are starting organized team activities (OTAs). They’ll get onto the field in shorts and helmets with very little contact, and they’ll begin running drills and installing plays. There will be camp observations from numerous first-hand sources, which will be the most viewed pieces of content of the spring. And a lot of it will be in service of the following question: who will make the Buffalo Bills 2026 53-man roster? Naturally, we as fans will all be thinking that too. Every time Jackson Acker makes a play out of the backfield in the passing game, we’ll wonder what it means for his camp battle with Ben VanSumeran. Every time Mecole Hardman and Trent Sherfield return a punt or beat a gunner, it’ll add to a running tally in our heads about which one of those players (if either) should be the last Bills receiver on their 53. Preseason games will provide a taste of “real” football, but they can frequently distract from the most important factors that go into actually identifying who’s going to make an NFL roster and who’s not. The emotional pinnacle of the Hall of Fame game kickoff may quickly dissipate into a “who is this guy” remark during the fourth quarter of that same game, but preseason games also inject variance into our own thought processes because they introduce the idea that HOW a player plays in these exhibitions is somehow the most predictive part of final roster analysis. The truth is, WHEN and WITH WHOM a player plays is far more predictive of their roster positions than HOW a player plays. We see it every year: some backup player lights up a team in the 4th quarter of the final preseason game, and there will be murmurs that maybe this player should make the 53-man roster. I mean, it is based on merit, right? Players who play better should make it over players that play worse. It’s a fair and true statement, but the fact that this final preseason darling (let’s call him Bob) performs excellently in the final preseason game means that the decision had already been almost (or entirely made) on their roster position. They’re playing alongside a bunch of other people not likely the make the roster, and against a bunch of players not likely to make their roster. Mismatched groupings for extended sample sizes are uncommon in the spring and even more uncommon the closer the calendar gets to cutdown day. If the backup offensive line is playing and Bob is consistently playing with that group, the most probable takeaway is that Bob is considered in the “backup offensive line” group. If that group includes players likely to make a roster, and they all sit together at the end of the first quarter of the final preseason game, Bob is probably a good bet to make the roster as a backup offensive lineman. Whether Bob gets beaten for a terrible sack during that game (“HOW he plays”) is not as predictive of his roster status as the fact that he was put out there alongside a handful of other players who are likely to make the team (“WITH WHOM he plays”) and the fact that those players weren’t in the game in the second half of the final preseason game (“WHEN he plays”). In 2024, Zach Davidson got some run as a potential TE3 for the Buffalo Bills (including an article written by yours truly ). Quinton Morris was the incumbent, but Davidson had made some noise at camp with impressive receiving plays smattered throughout camp observations. Even before training camp opened, I noted the following in the above-linked article: Preseason special teams will be a key factor in determining whether or not Davidson can usurp Morris from the TE3 spot, but the juice Davidson brings cannot be understated, especially to a team with a recent changing of the guard at key leadership positions who may be searching for a different vibe in the locker room in 2024. When preseason kicks off, when Davidson is playing and with what group will be more predictive of the coaching staff’s opinion of him than how he’s actually performing, but i
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