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Josh Allen
Josh Allen is a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. Depth chart: QB1.
Scouting report
Josh Allen: the full picture
Josh Allen at a glance
Josh Allen is a 30-year-old quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, listed at 6'5" and 237 pounds. The Buffalo Bills drafted Allen 7th overall in the first round in 2018, out of Wyoming, and 2026 is Allen's 9th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Allen for 339.2 PPR points in 2026, which ranks QB4 at the position and works out to 20.0 points per game over 17.0 projected games. The stat line behind that number is 4,674 passing yards, 25.2 passing touchdowns, 384 rushing yards and 5.5 rushing touchdowns. The model does not treat that as a promise: the range of outcomes runs from 44 points at the 5th percentile to 520 at the 95th, with a median of 339 and 78% projection confidence.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Allen has scored 161.3 PPR points, or 26.9 per game. That is 47.5% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Allen would finish with about 457 points, ahead of the 339.2 projected. The best week so far is 40.8 points in Week 2 against DET, the QB1 finish that week. Allen has cleared the 18-point mark we count as a usable QB start in 5 of 6 games, a 83% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 34 qualified quarterbacks of 2026, Allen ranks in the 99th percentile in rush yards, the 96th percentile in yards per attempt and the 81st percentile in pass yards. Four of the 8 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 31st percentile in interception rate.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Allen has finished as QB1 in 2020, QB1 in 2021, QB2 in 2022, QB1 in 2023, QB2 in 2024 and QB1 in 2025. That is six top-five positional finishes in 8 completed seasons. The high-water mark is 402.6 PPR points in 2021. Across 132 regular-season games on record, the totals read 31,576 passing yards, 229 passing touchdowns, 4,961 rushing yards and 87 rushing touchdowns.
Josh Allen by the numbers
Allen has been the highest-scoring quarterback of the week 22 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 57 times and finished in the top twelve 85 times. The career high is 51.9 PPR points, set in Week 14 of 2024 against LA, the top QB score of that week. The game log also shows 27 games of 30 or more PPR points, 32 300-yard passing games and 55 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Allen has reached 20 points in 78 games, 59% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Allen threw 6.8 deep passes per game (15 or more air yards) and completed 47% of them, against 20.8 short attempts per game at 72%. About 8.6 passes per game fell incomplete. Average time to throw was 2.89 seconds.
Contract
Allen is playing on a six-year, $330 million contract signed with the Buffalo Bills in 2025, an average of $55 million per year with $147 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2030 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Allen carries a GV stock price of 6,704, which ranks 5th overall and QB1 among quarterbacks out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Allen 8th overall. Value has moved up 1.6 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Patrick Mahomes, Caleb Williams and Lamar Jackson. See where Allen sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
3 news items linked to Allen in the past two weeks, the most recent on October 19, 2026. Read the latest Josh Allen news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 339.2
- PPR / game
- 20.0
- Pass yards
- 4,674
- Pass TD
- 25.2
- Rush yards
- 384
- Rush TD
- 5.5
Josh Allen fantasy outlook
Josh Allen enters the 2026 season with BUF and ranks QB4 and #7 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 339.2 PPR points across 17.0 games, or 20.0 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Josh Allen as QB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Josh Allen produced 364.6 PPR points in 16 games (22.8 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 64%, with a 90% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 2 projection
Josh Allen is projected for 19.8 PPR points at home against DET in week 2, with a likely range of 2.8 to 44.7.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 1.6 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 65.7
- Dynasty
- 65.0
- Superflex redraft
- 100.0
- Superflex dynasty
- 100.0
- TE premium dynasty
- 39.2
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Pass yds | Pass TD | Int | Rush yds | Rush TD | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BUF | 6 | 114 | 171 | 1,504 | 9 | 4 | 240 | 8 | 161.3 |
| 2025 | BUF | 16 | 319 | 460 | 3,668 | 25 | 10 | 579 | 14 | 364.6 |
| 2024 | BUF | 16 | 307 | 483 | 3,731 | 28 | 6 | 531 | 12 | 379.0 |
| 2023 | BUF | 17 | 385 | 579 | 4,306 | 29 | 18 | 524 | 15 | 392.6 |
| 2022 | BUF | 16 | 359 | 567 | 4,283 | 35 | 14 | 762 | 7 | 395.5 |
| 2021 | BUF | 17 | 409 | 646 | 4,407 | 36 | 15 | 763 | 6 | 402.6 |
| 2020 | BUF | 16 | 396 | 572 | 4,544 | 37 | 10 | 421 | 8 | 396.1 |
| 2019 | BUF | 16 | 271 | 461 | 3,089 | 20 | 9 | 510 | 9 | 288.6 |
| 2018 | BUF | 12 | 168 | 319 | 2,044 | 10 | 12 | 631 | 8 | 206.9 |
Quarterbacks ranked near Josh Allen
- Lamar Jackson QB1 · 387.3 PPR
- Drake Maye QB2 · 367.3 PPR
- Jayden Daniels QB3 · 348.5 PPR
- Caleb Williams QB5 · 330.0 PPR
- Bo Nix QB6 · 321.4 PPR
- Trevor Lawrence QB7 · 314.6 PPR
Buffalo Bills fantasy players
- James Cook RB · 294.6 PPR
- DJ Moore WR · 187.3 PPR
- Dalton Kincaid TE · 137.0 PPR
- Khalil Shakir WR · 133.4 PPR
- Keon Coleman WR · 92.4 PPR
- Dawson Knox TE · 76.4 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.