Overview

• Sportsbooks have Buffalo favored by roughly 7.5–8.5 points with the Bills at 4-0 and New England at 2-2.
• Buffalo has won six of the last seven meetings against New England in games played in Orchard Park.
• Stefon Diggs returns to Buffalo wearing Patriots colors in a closely watched homecoming.
• Analysts note Drake Maye’s efficient four-game start and project a potential primetime breakout as a possibility.
• Patriots coverage cites Rhamondre Stevenson’s ball-control role and offseason defensive additions—Harold Landry III, Milton Williams, Robert Spillane, Carlton Davis—as their best path to an upset.