{"id":763375,"date":"2026-07-15T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763375\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:38:08","slug":"buffalo-bills-claim-former-jets-wide-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763375\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills claim former Jets wide receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s mid July, but the Buffalo Bills are still tinkering with their roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the club made a waiver claim for a wide receiver ahead of training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In a corresponding move, Buffalo released receiver Deven Thompkins, whom the team signed after a strong minicamp showing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Thompkins and Skinner couldn\u2019t be more different from a physical perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Skinner measured in just under 6\u20194\u201d and 203 pounds at the Kansas Pro Day in 2025. Thompkins wasn\u2019t quite 5\u20197\u201d and didn\u2019t even tip the scales at 170 pounds during his pre-draft testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At that Jayhawks Pro Day, Skinner ran 4.52 with a 33-inch vertical jump, 10\u20192\u201d broad jump, and, most impressively, a 6.94 time in the three-cone drill before going undrafted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At Kansas, he caught 80 passes for 1,584 yards with 11 touchdowns across four seasons. He averaged over 20 yards per catch in each of his final two collegiate seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Skinner spent his rookie season in the NFL on the Jets and caught one pass for 10 yards, which ironically came in the 2025 regular-season finale in Orchard Park against the Bills. That reception came on a play in the fourth quarter in which Maxwell Hairston injured his ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s mid July, but the Buffalo Bills are still tinkering with their roster. Per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[71478,71479,349,99],"class_list":["post-763375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills-news","tag-buffalo-bills-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763375","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=763375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}