Bills’ Elijah Moore pursuit complicated by unusual Browns contract decision

Billy Heyen

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The Buffalo Bills hosted wide receiver Elijah Moore on a visit on Monday.

Nothing about that is out of the ordinary, and GM Brandon Beane shared a bit about the visit.

"Elijah Moore is here. He's a guy we've spoken to a few times leading up to the draft and we just kind of put a pin in it, just like we did several other positions and said 'hey, let's wait until the draft and see where we're at, see if he's still interested," Beane said on the One Bills Live show. "If we took a guy in the first or second round, he's probably not too interested. But we didn't and so, you know, we picked up those conversations over the weekend.

"He and his wife came up today and visited. So, we'll see. Nothing imminent today or anything like that, but a very good visit and we'll see where it goes."

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Something weird happened shortly after Moore visited, though.

The Browns, his former team, placed the unrestricted free agent tender on him.

That rarely used mechanism is a tender from Cleveland to Moore at 110 percent of his salary last season (in this case, $3.428 million). 

If Moore remains unsigned by July 22, only Cleveland can negotiate with him for the rest of the season.

That's a pretty wild rule, really.

Luckily for Buffalo, July 22 is a long way away. 

If the Bills are going to get Moore, it would likely happen sooner rather than later.

In 2024, Moore had a career-high 61 catches and took those for 538 yards and a lone TD.

Moore was high school teammates with newest Buffalo wide receiver Josh Palmer at St. Thomas Aquinas in Florida.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle