The Buffalo Bills are entering a critical stretch of their season that will determine whether they can make a late run for the playoffs, and the team could be looking to make a big addition on offense to help with the push.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Bills are one of four teams to express interest in two-time Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz, who was released by the Arizona Cardinals and cleared waivers.
“Two key free-agent decisions loom for two decorated players,” Schefter wrote on X. “Both former Colts’ LB Shaquille Leonard and former Cardinals TE Zach Ertz are free agents, and both are likely to have new homes in the next 48 or so hours, per sources. … As for Ertz, the Chiefs, Bills, Ravens and Eagles each have expressed varying forms of interest in the tight end.”
Though the Bills have shown interest in Ertz, another suitor may have an inside track. Eagles reporter Eliot Shorr-Parks predicted that Philadelphia would be the favorite given the team’s history with Ertz.
“I would be pretty surprised if Zach Ertz has the option to come back to Philadelphia but picks another team,” Shorr-Parks wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Still has a ton of connections to the city and could win another ring with the #Eagles”
Bleacher Report’s Timothy Rapp also pegged the Eagles as the most likely landing spot, noting that the timing could be right for a reunion.
“The Eagles chose to trade him in 2021 as Dallas Goedert assumed a larger role in the offense,” Rapp wrote. “But with Goedert currently injured and the Eagles ostensibly interested in surrounding Jalen Hurts with as many weapons as possible to gear up for a potential Super Bowl run, bringing back Ertz would make plenty of sense.”
