It may be a controversial opinion to say the Buffalo Bills 33rd overall pick in 2024 is the team’s true “wide receiver 1”. However, I am of the opinion that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Keon Coleman is wide receiver one shaped. Standing six-foot-four weighing well over 200 pounds, Coleman is a can’t miss factor on the football field. When he talks to the media, Coleman transforms into a can’t ignore personality in the locker room. Add this on top of his cemented role as X receiver to the best player in football? You get a budding star.
All reports coming out of training camp so far say Keon has been stealing the show. As was the case yesterday during the team’s famed “Return of the Blue and Red” practice at Orchard Park. ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg was on the scene and says that the young receiver was the highlight of the night.
“Second-year wide receiver Keon Coleman stood out for a variety of reasons,” Getzenberg writes. “Coleman started the night with two drops, including one during 11-on-11 drills on a pass from Trubisky that bounced off his hands.
But Coleman made a comeback with multiple impressive grabs in the team period, including one where he beat cornerback Christian Benford on a rep and made a catch in tight coverage. Coleman also made two standout catches on the same drive, both with cornerback Dane Jackson in coverage.”
He was credited with just five drops his rookie season, according to PFF, however many still criticize what they believe to be “inconsistent hands” during his rookie year.
Coleman Lashes Out To Media After Drops
Coleman, like all of us, seemed to care about the bad from Friday’s practice much more than the good. In his media availability after practice, Coleman had an emotional reaction to the two botched balls.
“You don’t move on [from the drops],” Coleman said after practice. “That s— still pissing me off, but it’s just, you got to make the next play. You got to go on. But I keep it in the back of my head. I got anger problems when it comes to that. So, you don’t drop it. That’s the only thing you can get over. You go, keep going.”
‘The Summer Of Keon Coleman Continues’
Friday was just the latest chapter in Coleman’s outstanding training camp. The day before, Coleman made headlines with a pair of highlight reel scores in Thursday’s intersquad.
“It’s Keon Coleman’s world right now and we’re all just living in it,” wrote Ryan Talbot for Syracuse.com. “Coleman was outstanding on Thursday, counted making several big catches and drawing flags.”
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