Elijah Moore has a brand new job.
The ex-Jets huge receiver is headed to upstate New York after agreeing to a one-year deal price as much as $5 million with the Payments on Wednesday, based on NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport.
“Again in that purple and blue Time to go be GREAT. Grateful for the chance! Cant wait to fulfill BILLS MAFIA,” Moore posted on X.
Moore, 25, had a career-high 61 catches for 538 yards with a landing for the 3-14 Browns final season, his second in Cleveland.
The Ole Miss product spent the primary two seasons of his NFL profession with the Jets after the franchise drafted him within the second spherical of the 2021 draft.
Moore’s two-year stint with Gang Inexperienced was a turbulent one.
Throughout his sophomore season in 2022, Moore requested a commerce from the Jets shortly after a weird social media posting spree amid a tricky two-game stretch.
After the season, the Jets despatched Moore to the Browns together with their third-round choose in change for Cleveland’s second-round choose within the 2023 draft.
The Payments’ newest transfer comes simply days after Buffalo common supervisor Brandon Beane misplaced it on WGR 550 Buffalo SportsRadio hosts Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase for suggesting the group ought to have addressed the huge receiver place earlier in final week’s draft.
“I used to be simply listening to the previous few minutes of your present ready to return on and it appears like 2018 throughout with you guys,” Beane stated. “You guys have been bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wished Josh Rosen, and now you guys are bitching that we don’t have a receiver.”
Moore joins Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel and Joshua Palmer in a crowded Payments huge receiver room with no star No. 1 pass-catcher.
