Former Kansas Metropolis Chiefs broad receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling has signed a one-year take care of the Buffalo Payments, the workforce introduced Tuesday.
The deal is value as much as $4.5 million, features a $1.125 million signing bonus, a supply instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
The Chiefs launched Valdes-Scantling in February in a transfer to unlock $12 million on their wage cap.
After Stefon Diggs was traded to the Texans and Gabe Davis signed with the Jaguars in free company, Valdes-Scantling provides one other veteran receiver to the Payments’ depth chart. He joins free agent acquisitions Curtis Samuel and Mack Hollins and second-round draft choose Keon Coleman as a number of the workforce’s notable additions this offseason.
Buffalo’s acquisition of Valdes-Scantling (6-foot-4, 206 kilos) continues the workforce’s development of including dimension to its receiving corps this offseason. The 29-year-old additionally gives a downfield risk, averaging at the very least 15 yards per reception in each season of his profession. Davis had performed the position as a downfield goal for Payments quarterback Josh Allen.
Valdes-Scantling additionally provides competitors to a crowded room forward of coaching camp this summer season, changing into the 14th receiver on the workforce’s roster, and ninth added this offseason.
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Valdes-Scantling, who additionally visited with the Chargers final week, performed two seasons with the Chiefs after signing as a free agent from the Packers. He caught 42 passes in 2022 and 21 final season however typically had his largest moments within the playoffs.
He caught eight passes for 116 yards and a landing within the Chiefs’ AFC Championship Recreation victory over the Bengals after the 2022 season.
Final season he caught a move to safe the Chiefs’ AFC Championship Recreation win over the Ravens and had the Chiefs’ first landing of their Tremendous Bowl LVIII victory over the 49ers.
ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg and Adam Teicher contributed to this report.
