Bills quarterback Josh Allen is the AFC Offensive Player of the Week after leading the Bills to a 35-10 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night.
This is Allen’s second Offensive Player of the Week award this season and now has 14 overall in his career.
Allen completed 13-of-17 pass attempts for 148 yards, 2 passing touchdowns and a 141.3 passer rating. He also added three rushes for 18 yards and a touchdown in addition to seven receiving yards and a touchdown.
The signal caller also became the first quarterback in NFL history with a passing, rushing and receiving TD in a single game and became the fourth player in NFL history to have a receiving TD on a pass he threw.
Allen recorded his 22nd career game with 2+ passing touchdowns and 1+ rushing touchdown, tying Cam Newton for the most such games in league history and raised his career total touchdowns to 248, surpassing Jim Kelly (244) for the most in team history.
“What an accomplishment,” head coach Sean McDermott said. “Couldn’t happen to a better person. Super happy for him and what he’s got going on off the field as well and how he continues to grow and this is a new chapter in his life. So just extremely proud, impressed and just fun watching him grow through the years.
Allen wowed everyone in attendance in the third quarter when he threw a pass to WR Amari Cooper and as Cooper was being tackled, he pitched it back to Allen who dove into the corner of the end zone and scored the touchdown to put the Bills up 28-3.
“I wish (Amari Cooper) got credited for something there, an assist or a passing touchdown,” Allen said. “I kind of threw a bad ball so I was just kind of chasing it. He made a heck of a catch. I threw it, it was just kind of sticky hand. And I just kind of chased the ball just to be there. And we made eye contact, and he just pitched it and I had to go make a play. It was dope.”
“I was wondering what he was doing over there,” Cooper said. “That doesn’t usually happen when you throw a dart route like that. I just saw him. I figured he was over there because he wanted the ball, so I gave it to him.
With the win, the Bills clinched the AFC East for the fifth consecutive season.
Allen has impressed his teammates and the coaching staff this season with his leadership and how much he has grown.
“I think being on the same page with how we want to play and just the way that Josh leading our team this year in particular of just that feel that he has for what we need to do and when we need to do it and how it needs to look,” McDermott said. “He’s really done a phenomenal job with that with our team this year.
