The Buffalo Bills are in great hands with quarterback Josh Allen, to say the least. The reining NFL MVP has been one of the game's best players for the better part of half a decade, and he finally won his first MVP award after many award-worthy seasons. Now, not only is Allen the defending MVP, he is being recognized as the top quarterback in the game. In his quarterback rankings for Bleacher Report, Brad Gagnon ranked Allen as the top quarterback in the league - ahead of Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Joe Burrow.
"Allen has been consistently spectacular for half a decade," Gagnon writes. The Approximate Value metric at Pro Football Reference registers him as the most valuable player in the NFL since the start of 2020, and by a significant margin over Mahomes and Jackson. And while Jackson might be the more electric and prolific rusher, Allen actually has nearly twice as many career rushing touchdowns (65) as the Baltimore QB (33). This could go either way. Admittedly, it's a toss-up between Allen and Jackson, who posted identical league-best QBRs of 77.3 as the NFL's two premier MVP candidates in 2024. Allen has just been a little more reliable overall and done a little more lately, but it's an open competition entering the 2025 campaign."
Allen has built up a Constitution-sized list of accomplishments since entering the league. His active streak of five straight 40+ touchdown seasons is the longest in NFL history. He has more rushing touchdowns than Christina McCaffrey. He's the first QB in NFL history with 6+ rushing TDs in 7 consecutive seasons. He has the most wins (76), total TDs (262) & total yards (30,595) by any player all-time in their first 7 seasons. I could keep going, but we'd be here all day. While a Super Bowl has escaped him to this point, the blame isn't on Allen for that. It feels like a matter of when, not if he'll lead the Bills to a championship. When he does, he'll cement himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
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