Brandin Cooks expects to sign with some team before training camp, hopes it’s the Bills

Free agent wide receiver Brandin Cooks doesn’t plan to be a free agent much longer.

Cooks told Tim Graham of TheAthletic.com that he’s looking forward to being in some team’s training camp in a few weeks, and he hopes to return to Buffalo, where he finished last season.

“Obviously, Buffalo is the place I’d love to be,” Cooks said. “I want to prove that to them and have a full offseason with them. Both sides are figuring things out. We’ll see, but hopefully something transpires because I love going to training camp. That’s where you build that callus.”

Cooks said he has been staying in shape this offseason and wants to play with a contender. Cooks thinks the Bills are contenders as long as they have Josh Allen at quarterback.

“I chose Buffalo because of the belief in Josh Allen,” Cooks said. “From afar, you heard the things going on inside the receiver room. In my mind, ‘OK, this was an opportunity where you got guys that can play, but also there’s a niche in there where, if I can come in and do what I have to do, I’m contributing.’ It was the totality of things, but who wouldn’t want to play with Josh Allen?”

Cooks has played for the Saints, Patriots, Rams, Texans, Cowboys and Bills, and he is closing in on 10,000 career receiving yards. He’s accomplished a lot in his NFL career, but he doesn’t have a Super Bowl ring. That’s his chief priority this year.