Jets fans have to chuckle as Elijah Moore gets cut by playoff-bound Bills

The last time the NY Jets were playing meaningful late-season football during the middle of the Robert Saleh era, second-round wide receiver Elijah Moore decided to upset the apple cart by demanding a trade that was eventually granted after just two seasons with the team.

While players shouldn't necessarily be vilified for wanting to leave the lowly Jets, Moore's decision rubbed this fanbase the wrong way. After joining an equally dysfunctional Cleveland Browns team, Moore didn't see the uptick in production he assumed would come after leaving Gang Green.

Moore thought he finally had it made with the Buffalo Bills, as he could ride Josh Allen's coattails to a championship. Before he even got to the playoffs, Moore found himself frozen out and back on the open market once again.

After agreeing to terms with veteran deep threat Brandin Cooks, the Bills decided to release Moore. Now looking for what will be his fourth NFL team at just 25 years old, Moore's decision to leave the Jets has not been the huge moneymaker he thought it would be.

Jets fans can laugh as former WR Elijah Moore gets cut by Bills

Moore caught 80 passes for 984 yards and six touchdowns in two seasons with the Jets. While he wasn't by any means a bad player, given the level of quarterback play he received, he didn't show anything that would suggest he would be the guy who breaks the team's Day 2 wide receiver curse.

Moore caught just nine passes for 112 yards in Buffalo and failed to catch any touchdowns (he had one rushing TD). The fact that Moore, who has just nine touchdowns in five NFL seasons, couldn't get any targets in a very thin Bills wide receiver room that is begging for playmakers might be a major indictment of his quality as a pass-catcher.

The Browns may have won the Moore trade, if only because the third-round pick they got back from the Jets became a decent player in wide receiver Cedric Tillman, The Jets acquired a second-round pick that was eventually flipped to Green Bay in the Aaron Rodgers trade, which...didn't work out.

While the Jets haven't exactly covered themselves in gold since Moore left the team, the Bills decided that Moore just wasn't good enough to keep around for the playoff push, which had to have been a major ego check for someone who was regarded as a top pick not very long ago.