Payments QB Josh Allen will sq. off towards Ravens QB Lamar Jackson in a highly-anticipated divisional spherical matchup Sunday. This offseason, Allen could obtain a bump that places his pay extra in step with his Baltimore counterpart and his different friends within the prime tier of the league’s signal-callers.
In keeping with Ian Rapoport of the NFL Community, Buffalo may supply Allen a contractual adjustment within the coming months, which sounds as if it might take the type of a elevate. The Payments restructured their franchise passer’s deal final March – a normal maneuver that transformed wage to signing bonus for cap functions – although Allen subsequently mentioned he was not looking for an increase in pay.
That’s even though the six-year, $258M deal Allen signed in 2021 is wanting increasingly more like a team-friendly accord. Not solely is Allen underneath membership management via 2028 – he’s the one non-Patrick Mahomes passer to have signed for greater than 5 years because the Chiefs icon’s pact was finalized – however his $43M AAV at present ranks 14th within the league’s QB hierarchy, behind quite a lot of less-accomplished gamers like Trevor Lawrence and Jordan Love. His $100M in whole ensures is now outdoors the top-10.
Then again, Allen’s cap cost will increase from simply over $30M in 2024 to over $43M in 2025, after which it spikes to a maybe untenable $64M in 2026. Some kind of transforming may serve the twin goal of smoothing out these cap hits whereas bringing Allen nearer to the highest of the market.
And he has definitely earned it. Whereas it stays to be seen whether or not the Wyoming product will land the primary MVP award of his profession for his 2024 efforts, his persistently wonderful play has remodeled the Payments from one of many AFC’s doormats to a convention powerhouse.
Since Allen entered the league in 2018, he has piloted Buffalo to a 76-34 common season report, and the crew has reached not less than the divisional spherical of the playoffs in every of the previous 5 years. Like Jackson, his fellow 2018 draftee, the lone knock on Allen is the truth that his membership has not but secured a convention championship, a shortcoming that a kind of gamers could have an opportunity to deal with subsequent week.
In 2024, Allen compiled his lowest passing TDs (28) and passing yards (3,731) totals since 2020, however he led the league in QBR (77.5) and was eighth in conventional quarterback score (101.4), largely as a result of he was far more cautious with the soccer. He threw simply six interceptions – in comparison with 18 picks in 2023 – and fumbled simply 5 occasions (the bottom mark of his profession). He remained a useful asset within the operating recreation, racking up 531 speeding yards (on a 5.2 yards-per-carry common) and 12 speeding scores. That manufacturing was despite the truth that Allen played through a fractured non-throwing hand for many of the season.
As Rapoport notes, Allen has an important relationship with the Payments, and a revised deal benefiting each events makes loads of sense.
