Elijah Moore signing one-year deal value as much as $5 million with Payments

Elijah Moore has a brand new job.

The ex-Jets huge receiver is headed to upstate New York after agreeing to a one-year deal value as much as $5 million with the Payments on Wednesday, in accordance with NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport.

“Again in that crimson and blue Time to go be GREAT. Grateful for the chance! Cant wait to fulfill BILLS MAFIA,” Moore posted on X.

Elijah Moore #8 of the Cleveland Browns warms up prior to an NFL football game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High on December 2, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. — Cleveland receiver Elijah Moore, who additionally performed for the Jets, warms up earlier than the Browns’ highway loss to the Broncos on Dec. 2, 2024. Getty Pictures

Moore, 25, had a career-high 61 catches for 538 yards with a landing for the 3-14 Browns final season, his second in Cleveland.

The Ole Miss product spent the primary two seasons of his NFL profession with the Jets after the franchise drafted him within the second spherical of the 2021 draft.

Moore’s two-year stint with Gang Inexperienced was a turbulent one.

Throughout his sophomore season in 2022, Moore requested a commerce from the Jets shortly after a weird social media posting spree amid a troublesome two-game stretch.

After the season, the Jets despatched Moore to the Browns together with their third-round choose in change for Cleveland’s second-round choose within the 2023 draft.

Elijah Moore #8 of the New York Jets runs the ball in the first half at MetLife Stadium, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022, in East Rutherford, NJ. — Elijah Moore runs upfield throughout a Jets’ sport on Dec. 18, 2022 at MetLife Stadium. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST

The Payments’ newest transfer comes simply days after Buffalo common supervisor Brandon Beane misplaced it on WGR 550 Buffalo SportsRadio hosts Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase for suggesting the workforce ought to have addressed the huge receiver place earlier in final week’s draft.

“I used to be simply listening to the previous few minutes of your present ready to return on and it appears like 2018 throughout with you guys,” Beane mentioned. “You guys had been bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys needed Josh Rosen, and now you guys are bitching that we don’t have a receiver.”

Moore joins Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel and Joshua Palmer in a crowded Payments huge receiver room with no star No. 1 pass-catcher.