{"id":583381,"date":"2026-04-14T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:50:10","slug":"buffalo-bills-wr-keon-coleman-being-mentored-by-stevie-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583381\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills WR Keon Coleman being mentored by Stevie Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cInitially, I definitely wanted Keon Coleman because when you look at his college tape he was jumping over guys. We have a quarterback that was jumping over guys, so why not get two guys who jump over guys. So I figured that would be a great connection, and then we went and pulled the trigger and we got him. So from there I ended up studying Keon: \u2018Oh, he used to play basketball. Okay that\u2019s pretty cool, I used to play basketball.\u2019 So you know you have the skill and the abilities to make plays and to beat defenders because of the basketball, you know, background. But what I didn\u2019t know about Keon was exactly how new he was to the wide receiver game \u2014 and I didn\u2019t know this until this past offseason where I got to really talk to him. In the first two seasons I never communicated with Keon. But this offseason I got to get on the phone with him, text message with him, go back and forth with videos, and now I\u2019m understanding that he was just collecting data those first two years \u2014 and he still had over 400 yards. So right now I\u2019m even higher on him, that I\u2019ve been able to do some type of mentorship with him and really understand what he\u2019s thinking. He\u2019s (been able) to ask me questions, so I\u2019m really high on Keon, to be honest, as an X-factor. Not as a numbered receiver \u2014 one, two, three, four \u2014 but as an X-factor who\u2019s gonna make plays when he needs to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cInitially, I definitely wanted Keon Coleman because when you look at his college tape he was jumping over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[71478,349,99],"class_list":["post-583381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}