"Year 7 ended like Years 3, 5 and 6, watching Kansas City celebrate as he trudged off the field. Allen will, of course, be back and playing at a high level, but it guarantees nothing for 2025," Ryan O'Halloran writes.
One of the quarterbacks in the Chiefs vs. Bills game is No. 1 among active players in receiving roughing the passer calls per game.
Oddsmakers have set them as just 1.5-point underdogs to win the AFC title game, and Allen and company did beat the Chiefs in the regular season. Allen's playoff record as an underdog (1-3, 0-3 on the road) is concerning, but the Bills did technically upset the Ravens on Sunday.
Buffalo Bill Josh Allen has had a long journey to this weekend’s 2025 NFL Conference Championships against the Kansas City Chiefs. And Wyoming played a key role in that journey.
Each of Patrick Mahomes’ prior postseason bouts with Josh Allen played out differently, yet the outcome was the same every time.
The Bills advanced to the AFC championship game next Sunday against the conference’s top seed, the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
It's Buffalo Bills vs Kansas City Chiefs for the AFC championship. Can Josh Allen and James Cook lead the Bills to win vs Patrick Mahomes and company?
Despite another gutsy effort from Allen and his teammates, who took the two-time defending Super Bowl champions down to the wire in the playoffs yet again, they came up short.
Josh Allen is in a familiar position, and it's not one he hoped to be in coming into Sunday's AFC Championship. The Buffalo Bills quarterback dropped to 0-4 in his playoff career against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs as his hopes of reaching the Super Bowl have once again come up just short with a 32-29 defeat at Arrowhead Stadium.
A total of 10 quarterbacks, running backs and receivers were taken in the first round of the 2018 draft. Seven years later, only two are still with the team that drafted them. Of course, they are two of the best players in the NFL: Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen (seventh overall pick) and Ravens QB Lamar Jackson (32 nd ).
Poor Josh Allen, man. For the fourth time in five years, Allen and the Buffalo Bills have fallen in the playoffs at the hands of Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. It's a