Buffalo Bills sign Brandin Cooks to try and help Josh Allen on chaotic WR depth chart

Billy Heyen

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Finally, the Buffalo Bills have tried to improve their WR depth chart.

Whether it's enough is anyone's guess, but on Tuesday afternoon, the Bills made a free agent addition.

Joining the Bills: Brandin Cooks.

The signing was announced about 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, and now the Bills will hope Cooks can be ready to play Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 13.

Cooks was recently waived by the New Orleans Saints, and once he passed through waivers, he signed with Buffalo.

He originally entered the NFL as a first-round pick of the Saints in 2014 out of Oregon State.

Cooks spent his first three seasons with the Saints.

Then it was one season with the Patriots, two with the Rams, three with the Texans, two with the Cowboys and the first 10 games of this season with the Saints.

In his dozen seasons in the NFL, Cooks has 729 catches for 9,697 yards and 60 touchdowns.

This year, Cooks had 19 grabs for 165 yards for the Saints in his 10 games, which included three starts.

The 5-foot-10, 190-pound Cooks won't solve the Bills' perimeter wide receiver problems, where Keon Coleman has been benched for two consecutive games.

But he does still have more deep-route capability than fellow small receiver Khalil Shakir, so there's a chance at Cooks making an impact on the occasional deep route.

The Bills really only had two options once they didn't trade for a WR at the trade deadline, those being free agents Cooks and Odell Beckham Jr.

They've gone with Cooks, and they'll have to hope that's enough.

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