Josh Allen: Press conference| Draft Pick| Post game| Stats

Josh Patrick Allen is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at Wyoming, where he was a bowl game MVP, and was selected by the Bills seventh overall in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Josh Allen: Press conference| Draft Pick| Post game| Stats

Press Conference:

When it was all over, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sprinted across the field to pay it forward. He weaved his way past the celebrating embraces of backup quarterback Chad Henne and linebacker Frank Clark, dropping his helmet at the 35-yard line and curving his trajectory to a person who had earned a shared private moment in the most public of places. 

Normally, this singular path in the euphoric chaos of victory delivers a player to an embrace with family or a cherished coach. For Mahomes, it took him to another player — his mirror, in many ways.

Draft pick:

Allen’s ear as cameras and boom microphones engulfed them. Two competitors who see-sawed leads and traded blows in one of the greatest games in NFL history, colliding in an evening that amounted to something far greater than its considerably talented parts.

Now they were sharing their mutual admiration for each other, before parting ways and leaving one to move forward while the other recedes into the inevitable hurt following an epic loss.

Post game:

As the book was closed on arguably the greatest weekend ever of NFL postseason football, some defining pictures continued to emerge in this postseason.

First with the presumed final game of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger; then to a defeated Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers contemplating what’s next in the final stretch of his career; and finally, on to Brady eyeing a possible end with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Stats:

Josh Allen has grown beyond simply having the physical tools to challenge Mahomes and the Chiefs for years to come. There is no “project” left in his game.

He has ascended onto a plateau to rival his counterpart, and maybe even put a fork into an AFC road that seemed destined to run through Kansas City for the next decade. We looked at Allen last season and thought that was his pronounced arrival, when in fact it was this postseason.