Camp week is here. The Buffalo Bills‘ rookies report to St. John Fisher University on Tuesday, the 26th time the team has set up its summer home in Rochester, according to the team’s camp announcement. Veterans follow on July 28, and the first public practice is set for Wednesday, July 29. It is the first training camp of the Joe Brady era, and that fact — more than any position battle — is the story of Buffalo’s summer.
The roster Brady inherits is largely the one Sean McDermott left behind. As NFL.com’s Jeremy Bergman noted in his AFC East camp preview, Buffalo returns most of its starters from a 12-5 team that reached the divisional round, and no club with a new head coach is better positioned to win right away. The front office treated the offseason accordingly: rather than a rebuild, it made a handful of targeted moves and otherwise bet that better coaching squeezes more out of the same core. Jim Leonhard, who coached Denver’s defensive backs the past two seasons, takes over McDermott’s old specialty on defense.
The additions address the two clearest 2025 failures. Bradley Chubb, signed away from Miami after an 8.5-sack comeback season, headlines a pass rush that Gregory Rousseau led with just seven sacks a year ago, and second-round pick T.J. Parker arrives Tuesday to join that rotation. At receiver, the trade for DJ Moore reunites him with Brady, his former offensive coordinator in Carolina, and gives Josh Allen the closest thing to a true No. 1 wideout Buffalo has employed since Stefon Diggs left town.
The battles worth watching once pads go on: left guard, where veteran Austin Corbett and Alec Anderson are the leading candidates to replace the departed starter, and the No. 3 receiver job, where Keon Coleman enters camp off the most pointed public endorsement of his offseason — receivers coach Drew Terrell called him “lights out” since the new staff arrived. Rookie report day starts the clock on all of it.
For fantasy purposes, Allen remains the top of the quarterback board and needs no camp validation. Moore is the interesting one: a WR1 workload in a Brady offense would make his current mid-round price look light, and his rapport with Allen through August is the thing to track. Coleman is a late-round flier whose cost will move with every camp report out of Rochester — the Terrell endorsement is a start, but target share against Joshua Palmer in team drills is the evidence that matters.
