The Division Ledgers
AFC East Cheat Sheet
New England buys the finished article, Buffalo fires a champion's coach and imports DJ Moore, and Miami starts over entirely.
XII
The East conducted the offseason's most aggressive arms race. New England paid a future first for A.J. Brown. Buffalo dismissed the only coach most of its roster has ever known, promoted Joe Brady, and traded for DJ Moore anyway. Miami changed coach, quarterback, and its best deep threat in one spring. Only the Jets merely changed coordinators — and even they hired Frank Reich.
| Team | New Voice | In | Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE | — | A.J. Brown (trade) | — |
| BUF | Joe Brady, HC · Pete Carmichael Jr., OC | DJ Moore (trade) | Sean McDermott (fired) |
| NYJ | Frank Reich, OC | Geno Smith | — |
| MIA | Jeff Hafley, HC · Bobby Slowik, OC | Malik Willis | Tua (to ATL) · Waddle (to DEN) |
- New EnglandThe PurchaseA.J. Brown cost a 2028 first and a 2027 fifth, and the market immediately made Drake Maye the second quarterback drafted at 51.6. Brown himself at 18.2 is the cleanest bet in the division: elite receiver, ascending passer, an offense with McDaniels' fingerprints and nothing else to feed.
- BuffaloRegime ChangeJoe Brady kept the building but changed the furniture, and DJ Moore gives Josh Allen — still the first quarterback off every board at 33.7 — his most complete target since the Diggs years. James Cook at 12.7 holds his price; Dalton Kincaid, healthy in year four, is the late-round tight end the sleeper columns keep circling.
- New YorkThe Reich ExperimentFrank Reich calling plays for Geno Smith is a perfectly respectable idea that fantasy keeps trying to price as exciting. It isn't. Breece Hall at 34.6 with a lingering groin and Garrett Wilson inside the top fifty both carry avoid-list paper. Let the room take the famous names; take the discount or nothing.
- MiamiYear ZeroNew coach, new coordinator, Tua in Atlanta, Waddle in Denver, and Malik Willis signed for three years and $67.5 million to run Bobby Slowik's offense. The one constant is De'Von Achane at 10.4 — a first-round price attached to a complete unknown. We're in at cost on the runner, out on everything that requires the passing game to arrive on schedule.
Three of four teams rebuilt the cockpit. The board still prices the passengers like the flight is on time.