Coleman's foot injury is the last thing Buffalo's receiving room needed right now

Keon Coleman sat out of Bills open practice Monday with a foot injury, adding another name to a position group that has spent most of camp looking for bodies. He's listed as active, so this isn't necessarily a crisis — but the timing is lousy, and the context makes it worse than the raw injury report suggests.

The receiving room behind DJ Moore has been patched together all summer. Tyrell Shavers is on the PUP list. A receiver signed earlier in camp didn't make it past his physical. The Bills brought in Dante Pettis in late July specifically to add some veteran floor to a group that didn't have much of one. Coleman, who caught 40 balls for 450 yards and five touchdowns in 14 games last season, was supposed to be a real contributor in that second tier — not a luxury, a necessity. Pettis and Trent Sherfield are currently the depth behind Moore on the depth chart. That's a thin margin.

With the final week of preseason ahead, the Bills don't need Coleman to play meaningful snaps right now. What they need is clarity that he'll be ready for Week 1. A foot injury this late in camp, even a minor one, carries a short runway for resolution. The receiving corps was already the team's most glaring offensive vulnerability heading into the season. This doesn't change the math, but it doesn't help it either.