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Josh Palmer

WR·Buffalo Bills·#5·6'1"·210 lb·5th year·Tennessee
Round 3, pick 77 in 2021
Updated November 4, 2026
68.9
Model Score
Down from 69.4 last year
Trade value ·a 7th

Josh Palmer has 4 catches, 117 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns in 5 games for the Buffalo Bills this season through Week 8, 5.5 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).

Model Score by season

Down 0.5 from last season.

60708068.9202120222023202420252026

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Plays like: J.J. Nelson, Carl Pickens, Vincent Brown. Coming out: Ricardo Louis, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Bennie Fowler.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 0 stars, 1 starter, 9 backups, 10 didn't stick.

Josh Palmer Props This Weekvs BAL

MarketLineOverUnder
Receptions1.5+175 Bovada-240 Bovada
Receiving yards9.5-110 Bovada-120 Bovada

Best price across 9 books as of Mon Nov 2. Lines move; check the book before you bet. This week's board · Line Room

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Josh Palmer Injury StatusQuestionable

Josh Palmer is listed Questionable (Hamstring), reported Nov 1. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

This season · 5 games

Rec4
Rec Yds117
Rec TD2
Targets13
Yds/Gm23.4
Fantasy PPG5.5
EPA / target3.043
Avg separation0.0 yd
Avg cushion0.0 yd
YAC over exp0.0
Catch %0.0%

5.5 fantasy points a game, 28 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.

Contract2026 cap

2026 Cap Hit
$11.8M
APY
$10.0M/yr
Guaranteed at Signing
$15.0M
Years on Deal
3
Signed
2025
Est. Value
$2.3M/yr
overpaid by $7.7M/yr

Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.

Fantasy outlookWeek 9

This week he hosts BAL, projecting 6.8 points a game from here.

Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 77 to the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021, out of Tennessee (SEC). He went about where consensus had him.

Taken#77
Consensus board99th
Our college model#1619 WR

In college, 2017-2020, 44 games: 96 rec, 1,474 yds, 7 TD, 15.4 yds/rec.

Recruited

Class of 2017 · Receiver · High school: St. Thomas Aquinas, Brampton, ON

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 832 in the nation. Composite 0.8528, the recruiting sites' average
Offer strength, our grade
78 of 100
Better offers than 99% of the 2017 class. How it is made
Offers
15
Schools that offered him a scholarship
Committed to

His offer board, and the recruits whose boards look like it now →

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