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The Buffalo Bills are heading to their bye week coming off consecutive losses.

The headlines Tuesday morning are focused on the Bills’ need for a wide receiver, and that’s fair, to a point.

But it might not be their biggest need.

ESPN’s Ben Solak singled out a different position: Safety.

“Watching Bills defense film from last night. Buffalo should be pursuing a safety deadline trade more aggressively than any deadline buyer of any position of the last few seasons,” Solak wrote on X on Tuesday morning.

The Bills haven’t solved safety in the last couple seasons.

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For many years, Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer held down those two spots and made it a position of strength.

But now, the Bills have Cole Bishop and Taylor Rapp struggling, Damar Hamlin on IR, a rookie Jordan Hancock and an aged Poyer back but only on the practice squad and elevated to the active roster for the first time in Week 6.

Buffalo’s offense has struggled of late, to be sure. But if the defense could pick up the offense, that’d make it less noticeable.

Instead, the Bills have had to put together scoring drives, and they simply haven’t.

Wide receiver help could be valuable, but the Bills have depth at that position. They just don’t have a true WR1, which isn’t necessarily available in the trade market.

Safety could use a bigger upgrade, as Solak writes, so Buffalo should start making some calls.

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