Bills predicted to cut ties with $9.5 million wide receiver

The Buffalo Bills are heading into an offseason that could see some differences in opinion.

After nearly a decade of Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott working together, McDermott is gone.

Joe Brady has been promoted from offensive coordinator to be the new head coach, and he'll have new coordinators on staff underneath him.

That means player evaluations could change based on having new faces in new positions of power.

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There are cut candidates every offseason, but the Bills have the potential to surprise on certain moves because of the new coaching staff.

Not one move, though -- everyone is expecting Curtis Samuel to be released.

Sports Business Journal's Nick Veronica does an annual breakdown of the Bills' upcoming offseason, and he lists out a bunch of cut candidates.

He sees Samuel as logical as they come. 

Why? Cutting Samuel saves the Bills $6.1 million against the salary cap (out of a $9.5 million cap hit if he stays around).

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Given that Samuel hardly has a use for Buffalo these days, and that the Bills will surely be bringing in fresh faces at wide receiver, this cut seems like a no-brainer.

Maybe it feels a bit like an admission of a bad acquisition for Beane, but it doesn't matter at this point. You can't go back, and instead have to focus on having the best roster going forward, one that almost certainly won't include Samuel.

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