Kolby Listenbee: Will Buffalo Bills’ Rookie WR Play This Season?

Kolby Listenbee will have to prove himself next season when he makes his debut.

When you think about some of the fastest players in the NFL, it’s hard to think that this rookie can beat them all. Although possible, it’s hard to tell who the fastest really is.

However, there’s no doubt that he was one of that fastest at the NFL Combine and taking into account that he had a double sports hernia, he can definitely be listed as one of the fastest players in the NFL — once he gets healthy.

Kolby Listenbee will definitely have a lot of competition, though, when it comes to that discussion. Even his new teammate, Marquise Goodwin, will have to say that isn’t true.

Goodwin is in his 4th year in the NFL and holds the third-fastest 40-yard dash in NFL Combine history. In 2013, he ran it in 4.27 seconds (0.12 faster than Kolby). The two have a lot in common, especially with Goodwin’s track record. As a long jumper, Goodwin competed in the 2012 Olympics and was training for this year’s Summer Olympics, once again for long jump.

The Bills should be excited to add Kolby Listenbee to their roster next season and see what he can do. It was a very nice 6th-round pickup that will no doubt add depth to the list of Tyrod Taylor’s targets that he has yet to build chemistry with.

The Buffalo Bills have had a lot of young talent just like his step into similar situations, but none have proved worthy enough to stay — like Roscoe Parrish and T.J. Graham. Marquise Goodwin is another one that is still fighting to gain a solid reputation with this offense.

For now, let’s see if Listenbee can get healthy and then see if he can live up to the hype he’s created around himself.

As a Bills’ fan, I think I speak for everyone in saying I certainly hope so.

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