Kelvin Benjamin may now be a member of the Buffalo Bills, but the wide receiver is apparently still feeling bitter over his time with the Carolina Panthers and how his tenure there ended.

Speaking with Tim Graham of The Athletic, Benjamin said Carolina was a “bad fit from the get-go” and that he would have been far more successful with a quarterback like Eli Manning.

“If you would’ve put me with any other quarterback, let’s be real, you know what I’m saying?” Benjamin explained to Graham. “Any other accurate quarterback like [Aaron] Rodgers or Eli Manning or Big Ben [Roethlisberger] — anybody! — quarterbacks with knowledge, that know how to place a ball and give you a better chance to catch the ball. It just felt like I wasn’t in that position.

“I feel like I’m the best one that came out of that class! They were just put in better opportunities to have success. If you notice, at the end of the day, my rookie year I was the only one to get to the playoffs.”

Benjamin quickly became a target of criticism for his comments, but he refused to walk them back. Instead, he took to Twitter to defend himself.

I’m just crazy then !!! I was the one who buried my mom and skip the grievance process to get back and help that team …. let be real it’s was all fake .. and to be honest i was salty Who wouldn’t be …. I just ben holding it all in. And now I’m free. Hate me or love me ..🖐🏽 — Kelvin Benjamin (@kelvinbenjamin) August 4, 2018

Benjamin, of course, was part of a rookie class that also featured Odell Beckham Jr., Mike Evans and Brandin Cooks. And perhaps none has been more successful than Beckham, who got teamed up with Manning and proceeded to shatter many franchise and league records over his first three seasons (suffered a fractured ankle in his fourth).

Considering how critical most pundits tend to be when it comes to Eli Manning, it’s interesting to hear Benjamin pinpoint him as a quarterback he would have preferred to play with as opposed to Cam Newton, who won the league MVP award in 2015.