{"id":890369,"date":"2026-05-13T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/890369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:30:26","slug":"pff-which-bills-player-could-have-breakout-year-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/890369\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF: Which Bills player could have ‘breakout year’ in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> have had a player pop up on a promising list from Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n

PFF named a list of breakout players coming in the 2026 season. For the Bills, the pick was safety Cole Bishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a slow start to his rookie year, Bishop ended up turning it on late in 2024 and in the postseason. That led to last season where he established himself as a starting player.<\/p>\n

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PFF’s breakout on Bishop can be found below:<\/p>\n

Bishop is an ascending safety who now has the privilege to be coached by a sage voice at the position.<\/p>\n

Bishop took a step last season, bolstering his overall PFF grade from 52.0 to 66.5. Much of that was galvanized by better coverage work, where Bishop allowed only a 45.7 passer rating when targeted. Along similar lines, the Utah<\/a> product ranked in at least the 67th percentile in coverage grade in both the box and slot.<\/p>\n

Having suited up on 159-plus snaps at free safety, in the box and in the slot throughout his two-year career, Bishop is a versatile chess piece for new defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard<\/a>. The former second-round pick has looked the part at times in the past, and Leonhard \u2014 who\u2019s developed players like Ja\u2019Quan McMillian<\/a> and Brandon Jones<\/a> \u2014 can help make him more refined.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: PFF: Bills named on list of players that will breakout in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills have had a player pop up on a promising list from Pro Football Focus. PFF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,10886,26148,214,53,2086,1737,7,90259,6,410],"class_list":["post-890369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-bills","tag-bills","tag-brandon-jones","tag-breakout-players","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-buffalobills","tag-cole-bishop","tag-football","tag-jim-leonhard","tag-nfl","tag-pro-football-focus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116568930649701744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890369","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=890369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}