Bills begin Allen and Moore connection at OTAs

ORCHARD PARK - The Josh Allen and DJ Moore reunion that is taking place this week during the start of the OTA portion of the Buffalo Bills’ offseason is one that is nearly eight years in the making. Back in 2018, Allen was the seventh overall pick in the NFL Draft by the Bills while Moore went 17 picks later at No. 24 to the Carolina Panthers .

Allen’s only professional address has been One Bills Drive, and now, after five years in Carolina and three in Chicago, Moore has joined his draft classmate after president/general manager Brandon Beane acquired him in a trade that included Buffalo’s 2026 second-round pick. “We go actually way back,” Allen said of his relationship with Moore. “We sat next to each other at the Rookie Premiere, signing Panini cards and autograph cards.

I don’t know if anybody’s talked about that whole situation, but you sit there for legit eight hours just signing your life away, and so getting some good conversations back then, it’s pretty cool to have him here now. ” Obviously, Allen and Moore didn’t have many opportunities to build on that early interaction, but that has changed now that Moore is in Buffalo and is expected to be the true No. 1 receiver Allen and the Bills have lacked since Stefon Diggs left town after 2023.

This week marked the first time they’ve practiced together and these are the first steps toward developing the chemistry that will hopefully make them a lethal tandem in 2026. How Josh Allen and DJ Moore are building chemistry “You’re able to do more to see what works and what doesn’t,” Allen said. “Obviously we go out there, if we make mistakes, which is going to happen, chalk it up to the first couple days of OTA, and be like, ‘Hey, we like this, we don’t like this,’ and just again, continuing to work on it, and find ways that we can learn how to complement each other and build that chemistry and camaraderie.