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Bills quarterback Josh Allen will reach a new level in 2021. According to NFL.com, that plateau will be the “Superstar Club” of the league.
After his breakout 2020, the league’s website predicted that Allen will take things even further from his “monster leap” which already happened:
Allen’s dynamo 2020 season had to be cathartic for Bills fans who believed in their young quarterback all along. There were plenty of whispers last summer — people weren’t even really speaking at a low volume, to be honest — from those wondering if Allen was really the answer for Buffalo. The QB took a monster leap forward in his third season, and he probably would have been the first Bill to win league MVP since Thurman Thomas in 1991 had Aaron Rodgers not delivered his own masterpiece. My favorite Allen stat (via Pro Football Focus): He was sixth in the NFL with a 79.1 percent adjusted completion rate, an enormous jump out of the bottom five of the league the previous year. In one offseason, Allen went from a hyper-athletic hoss with a scattershot arm to the complete package. They should probably keep this guy around.
Rodgers went on to edge Allen out for the MVP in a big way. Still, Allen managed to finish second-overall in the award’s voting and that can’t be taken away from him.
But Allen reaching this potential level brings another thing into the picture: His contract.
It seems only like a matter of time that the Bills will sign Allen to a long-term extension. Buffalo already flexed the fifth-year option on his rookie contract this summer… but if he does take things to the highest level? Allen’s price tag will only continue to rise.
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