Amid a handful of significant needs across the roster ahead of the NFL‘s Nov. 4 trade deadline, the Buffalo Bills are honing in on a No. 1 wide receiver for superstar quarterback Josh Allen.
Dianna Russini of The Athletic reported on Saturday, that Buffalo has someone in mind and has made recent overtures as to his availability.
“The Bills were one of the teams that inquired in recent weeks about Saints WR Chris Olave,” Russini wrote. “New Orleans is still expected to retain its top wideout.”
New Orleans is 1-7 with four of its next five games on the road and recently made a switch under center from Spencer Rattler, who has played competently this season, to rookie quarterback Tyler Shough. All of that points to the Saints embracing the notion that their 2025 season is going into the tank ahead of next year’s draft.
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Olave is in the fourth and final year of his $19.3 million rookie contract, though New Orleans exercised its team-option on that deal for a fifth season in 2026 that will pay Olave $15.5 million — upping his five-year NFL earnings to just shy of $35 million total.
Following the 2026 campaign, Olave will hit unrestricted free agency unless the Saints employ the franchise tag to keep him around for another season at what would be an impossibly high number, even despite his level of talent.
Thus, Olave is a reasonable trade candidate over the next few days. If the team doesn’t move him before November 4, there will likely be talk of trades during the offseason and ahead of next year’s mid-season deadline, unless the Saints have a New England Patriots-like turnaround in just a single cycle.
Olave, 25, is probably worth an early Day 2 draft pick, even despite multiple concussion issues and missing nine games in 2024. He tallied more than 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first two NFL seasons and has produced 52 catches for 503 yards and three touchdowns through eight games this season.
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