The Buffalo Bills have one of the most talented quarterbacks in recent memory in Josh Allen. The Bills’ superstar is coming off his first MVP award and second trip to the AFC Championship Game of his career. With that in mind, where does Allen fall in the all-time rankings as he enters year number eight?
Over at SB Nation, I assembled a panel to rank the 30 greatest quarterbacks of the Super Bowl era. After calculating the votes, Allen was ranked No. 21.
“There is no comp because no quarterback in NFL history remotely resembles the force of nature cannon-blasting through defenses in Western New York,” Tyler Dunne writes. “You’d need to go full Dr. Frankenstein, piecing together Ben Roethlisberger’s size, Brett Favre’s right arm with an A-level mix of brains and elusiveness and athleticism. But the greatest trait Allen possesses is an abundance of fearlessness. The kid that no D-I school would touch out of high school willed himself into the position to resurrect one of the league’s saddest teams. Now? He’s the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reason these Buffalo Bills are in perennial title contention. Teammates en masse would run through the nearest cement wall for Allen. When it’s all said and done — if he can hoist a Lombardi or two — we may all discuss Allen with the very best who’ve ever played the position.”
As Dunne points out, it would be hard to keep Allen out of the top 15, or even perhaps the top 10, should he win a Super Bowl. His combination of arm talent and ability as a runner is unlike anything the league has ever seen – all he needs is the ring.
