With the Buffalo Bills thin at wide receiver and C.J. Spiller not getting a ton of touches, there have been suggestions of having him line up wide.

"Put him at wide receiver?" responded Doug Marrone when asked on WGR-AM Friday morning. "Well I think in the backfield it's much easier to hand him the football than it is to throw him the football, especially vertically down the field. Intermediate throws I have no problem, (or) screens, intermediate routes, but it's really difficult to push that ball downfield to running backs at any position."

Spiller lined up at wide receiver in 2011 against the Giants and caught five passes for 39 yards.

The Bills will likely use more multiple tight end sets and use Spiller as a receiver out of the backfield.