{"id":68584,"date":"2025-05-21T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/68584\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:54:28","slug":"recent-former-raiders-veteran-wr-latches-on-with-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/68584\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent former Raiders veteran WR latches on with Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for Kristian Wilkerson to find a new home. A week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Raiders<\/a> cut the veteran wide receiver, he has signed on with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson is a five-year NFL veteran. Of his four NFL seasons, he spent that past two in Las Vegas, appearing in five games with one start. The rest of the time he was a mainstay on the team&#8217;s practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Last season he saw three targets, catching two passes for 18 yards, one for a touchdown in a loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Raiders overhauled much of their receiver room, including adding three receivers in the draft. They took TCU&#8217;s Jack Bech at 58 overall in the second round, Tennessee&#8217;s Dont&#8217;a Thornton in the fourth round and former Montana State QB Tommy Mellott in the bottom of the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the draft they signed undrafted free agent WR Ketron Jackson Jr. and WR Key&#8217;Shawn Smith. That&#8217;s when Wilkerson was cut.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/raiderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/raiders\/2025\/05\/21\/former-raiders-wr-kristian-wilkerson-signs-buffalo-bills\/83776679007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Recent former Raiders veteran WR signs with Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Recent former Raiders veteran WR signs with Buffalo Bills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn&#8217;t take long for Kristian Wilkerson to find a new home. A week after the Raiders cut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,315,8697,1744,6,57,525,526,1473],"class_list":{"0":"post-68584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jack-bech","14":"tag-kristian-wilkerson","15":"tag-las-vegas","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","18":"tag-raiders","19":"tag-tennessee","20":"tag-wide-receiver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114548052185089667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}