Moore Is Out for the Rams Game. Buffalo's Receiving Room Is Running Out of Bodies.

DJ Moore is ruled out for Week 5 against the Rams, which is a significant problem for a receiving group that was already held together with tape. Moore has been the clear top option in this offense — the depth chart shows him accounting for the large majority of receiver production this season, with Greg Dortch and Trent Sherfield splitting what's left. Neither is a starter in a game that matters.

The room was thin before this. Khalil Shakir is active and will need to carry more, and Dalton Kincaid gives Allen a reliable option underneath. But Joshua Palmer is out, and the Bills have been patching this position since training camp — Dortch came in off the practice squad, Trent Sherfield has stayed healthy enough to dress, and that's essentially the depth. The analyst piece earlier this week put it plainly enough: this was already a paper patch. Moore's absence tears it open.

Josh Allen can make bad situations workable — that's not a new observation. But the Rams present a real test, and Buffalo going into it without its top receiver, with Palmer also unavailable, is the kind of short-handed situation that tends to expose the close-game execution problems this team carried all last season. Allen will have Shakir, Kincaid, and Knox. That's a functional group. It is not a deep one.