Josh Allen is the MVP favourite, and that’s maybe simply his second most spectacular feat of the season up to now.
NFL Community experiences that Allen has performed many of the season with a fractured non-throwing hand, because of an damage he sustained speeding for a landing in Week 1 in opposition to the Cardinals, although he’s now thought of wholesome.
Allen, 28, has performed so effectively that you simply wouldn’t have the ability to inform he was coping with an damage; he has 25 passing touchdowns in opposition to simply 5 interceptions to go together with 11 speeding touchdowns for the 11-3 Payments.
The damage occurred on an Allen run to the purpose line, the place he did a Superman-like leap to get into the tip zone.
He was hit in midair by Cardinals defensive sort out Justin Jones, and Allen planted his hand down on the bottom to brace his fall.
Allen doesn’t seem to present his hand even just a little look because the play ends and he celebrates his landing.
The Payments gained that sport, 34-28, whereas Allen rushed for 2 touchdowns to go together with two passing touchdowns.
The star quarterback hasn’t even been sporting a protecting brace on his hand throughout video games however has worn a glove.
Buffalo has ridden on the again of Allen, who has semi-divisively moved to NFL MVP favourite standing by a large margin, whereas final 12 months’s MVP, Lamar Jackson, has barely higher statistics, though his staff hasn’t fairly loved the identical success.
Jackson already has a career-high 37 passing touchdowns and three speeding touchdowns.
Allen and the Payments are nonetheless within the hunt for the first-round bye that’s presently held by the Chiefs (14-1).
The Payments host the Patriots on Sunday.
