{"id":794358,"date":"2026-03-05T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794358\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:49:14","slug":"former-panthers-wr-traded-to-bills-in-surprising-deal-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794358\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Panthers WR traded to Bills in surprising deal on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Carolina Panthers<\/a> player has <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/bills-lb-shaq-thompson-asked-103049183.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:found his way;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found his way<\/a> to Buffalo. This time, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> that&#8217;ve helped him get there.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports from Thursday, the Bears are trading wideout DJ Moore to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bills<\/a>. The deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2029610783592620391\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:per;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">per<\/a> NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero, will see the ex-Panther and a 2026 fifth-round pick head to Buffalo in exchange for a 2026 second-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Moore, of course, began his NFL career in Carolina, as a first-round pick from the 2018 NFL Draft. He&#8217;d go on to play five seasons with the Panthers\u2014totaling 364 catches for 5,201 yards (the fourth-most in franchise history) and 21 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers would then <a href=\"https:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2023\/03\/10\/panthers-trade-dj-moore-picks-to-bears-2023-draft\/79822911007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ship Moore away;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ship Moore away<\/a> to Chicago as part of the massive deal for the No. 1 overall pick of the 2023 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Moore will reunite with former Panthers offensive coordinator and new Bills head coach Joe Brady. In 2020, their only full season together, Moore notched what remains a career-high 18.1 per reception.<\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@ThePanthersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/03\/05\/nfl-offseason-trade-dj-moore-bears-bills-panthers\/89000499007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL offseason: Former Panthers WR DJ Moore traded to Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL offseason: Former Panthers WR DJ Moore traded to Bills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet another former Carolina Panthers player has found his way to Buffalo. This time, it&#8217;s the Chicago Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[215,214,235,260,2567,391,1475,7,6,15,126,236,3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-794358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-dj-moore","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-draft","18":"tag-nfl-network","19":"tag-panthers","20":"tag-tom-pelissero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116178069999180849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794358","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=794358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}