Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen sets a record every week. This time, it was playoff records.
Josh Allen has a bunch of NFL records, and Sunday he keeps going. The Buffalo Bills QB threw a touchdown pass and scored two rushing touchdowns in addition to gaining a bunch of yards on the ground and through the air.
Josh Allen is the Bills’ all-time leader in playoff yards and touchdowns
Josh Allen came into the game as the Bills’ leader in playoff yardage with 4043 yards through passing, rushing, and receiving. He padded that with 306 yards against the Jaguars.
Allen came into the game with 25 passing touchdowns, 7 rushing touchdowns, and a receiving touchdown for 33 total touchdowns, adding three more in the Wild Card round for 36. Jim Kelly has 21 (all passing) and Thurman Thomas has 21 rushing and receiving. Allen has more touchdown passes in the playoffs than Jim Kelly did his entire career.
Josh Allen has second-most rushing touchdowns by a QB in the playoffs
Allen added two rushing touchdowns in the game to move into second place all by himself in postseason rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. He entered one behind Steve Young for second place. Jalen Hurts is the leader with 10, now Allen has nine, Young has eight, and Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes have seven.
Jalen Hurts – 10
Josh Allen – 9
Steve Young – 8
Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes – 7
Josh Allen has a win in seven straight postseasons
Wins aren’t a QB stat, there are a team stat. BUT the NFL tracks them, and Tom Brady had a win in eight consecutive postseasons from 2011 to 2018. Allen joins Patrick Mahomes in 2018 to 2024 as players with seven straight seasons with a playoff win. If Allen and the Bills win a game in the 2026 postseason a year from now, Allen will tie Brady’s record.
Tom Brady – eight straight seaons
Josh Allen – seven straight seasons*
Patrick Mahomes – seven straight seasons
* Streak still active
Only four teams in NFL history have won games in six straight postseasons. The Bills, Patriots, and Chiefs in addition to the 1990s Dallas Cowboys. In 1991, Steve Beuerlein won a game for the Cowboys in place of an injured Troy Aikman, and the HOFer won the next five years.
Josh Allen is good at rushing and passing in the playoffs
Allen is the first QB in NFL history to complete 80% of his passes AND rush for more than one touchdown in a single playoff game.
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