Bills quarterback has played 124 career regular-season games. And he’s on the brink of accounting for 300 total touchdowns.
Via NBC Sports research, Allen is closing in on Aaron Rodgers’s record for the fewest games needed to get to 300 total touchdowns. Rodgers did it in 134 games.
For his regular-season career, Allen has 217 passing touchdowns, 77 rushing touchdowns, and two receiving touchdowns.
He’s also chasing his third career season of 25 or more touchdown passes and 10 or more rushing touchdowns. All other players in NFL history have combined for two. (Cam Newton and Kyler Murray each did it once.)
With 34 total touchdowns in 2025, Allen is six touchdowns away from his sixth straight season of 40 or more total touchdowns. Aaron Rodgers also has six seasons of 40 or more total touchdowns.
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Time will tell which of the six quartebacks taken in the first 12 selections of the 2024 draft will be regarded as the best of the bunch. For now, however, Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is the one who is on the brink of doing something historic.
He has won 10 straight games while throwing for 200 or more passing yards in each one. If Maye does it again on Sunday against the Bills, he’ll be only the fifth player to ever do it in 11 straight games, per NBC Sports research.
Peyton Manning did it twice, in 2009 (14 games) and 2012 (11 games). Tom Brady did it in 2007 (13 games). Aaron Rodgers did it in 2011 (13 games). Dan Marino did it in 1984 (11 games).
Maye would join Marino as the only players to accomplish that feat before the age of 25.
The names are impressive. This isn’t something that happens for flashes in the pan but for bona fide franchise quarterbacks.
Maye is proving, one game at a time, that he belongs in this category. In only his second NFL season, things are looking up for the Patriots. Which is a lot better than it was looking in 2023 and 2024.
The Patriots announced a few roster moves ahead of Sunday’s game against the Bills.
Running back D’Ernest Johnson has been signed to the active roster from the practice squad. Johnson has appeared in three games for New England this season and has four carries for seven yards.
Johnson will be the No. 3 back behind Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson because Terrell Jennings has been placed on injured reserve. Jennings was ruled out on Friday due to a concussion and he will now miss the rest of the regular season.
The Patriots also elevated defensive lineman Leonard Taylor from the practice squad for Sunday’s game.
The 9-4 Bills are on the brink of losing their five-year hammerlock on the AFC East. They’re also on the verge of yet another 10-win season.
They’ve done it every year since 2019. The next one, barring an 0-4 free fall, will be their seventh in a row.
That would tie the 1975 through 1981 Cowboys for the fifth-longest streak of 10-win seasons. The Patriots have the record, with 17 (2003-19). The 49ers did it 16 straight times, from 1983 through 1998. The Chiefs have a 10-year streak, from 2015 through 2024. (They need to run the table to extend it.) And the Colts won 10 or more games for nine seasons in a row, from 2002 through 2010.
The 17-game season, which arrived in 2021, makes it easier for all teams to get to 10 wins. But the Bills haven’t had a 10-7 season that would justify an unofficial asterisk.
After going 10-16 in 2019 and 13-3 in 2020, they’ve gone 11-6 in 2021, 13-3 in 2022 (the Damar Hamlin game was suspended and not made up), 11-6 in 2023, and 13-4 in 2025.
Cornerback Christian Benford didn’t practice on Friday, but the Bills have not ruled him out for Sunday’s game against the Patriots.
Benford landed on Thursday’s injury report as a limited participant due to a toe injury and the team has officially listed him as questionable to play this weekend. Benford has scored touchdowns in each of the team’s last two games and his absence would be a significant blow to the secondary.
Bills head coach Sean McDermott announced on Friday morning that wide receiver Josh Palmer (ankle) and linebacker Terrel Bernard (elbow) would be listed as questionable. There are no other players with injury designations.
That leaves defensive end Joey Bosa (hamstring, wrist) and right tackle Spencer Brown (shoulder) on track to play.
The Bills may be without cornerback Christian Benford for Sunday’s game against the Patriots.
Benford was added to the injury report on Thursday with a toe injury. He was listed as a limited participant and head coach Sean McDermott said on WGR 550 that Benford will not practice at all on Friday.
McDermott said that Benford does have not an injury designation at the moment, but his trajectory would seem to leave him questionable to play at best.
Wide receiver Josh Palmer (ankle) and linebacker Terrel Bernard (elbow) will be listed as questionable on the team’s final injury report. Defensive end Joey Bosa (hamstring, wrist) and right tackle Spencer Brown (shoulder) will be full participants in Friday’s practice, which bodes well for the team’s chances of having him against New England.
One of Buffalo’s key defensive players was added to the team’s Thursday injury report.
The Bills noted cornerback Christian Benford was limited in practice with a toe injury.
In his fourth season, Benford has scored a defensive touchdown in each of Buffalo’s last two games. In Week 13, he returned a fumble 17 yards for a score and last Sunday he returned an interception off Joe Burrow 63 yards for a go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter.
In 12 games this year, Benford has 39 total tackles with two interceptions, two fumble recoveries, and 2.0 sacks.
Benford was one of two players added to Buffalo’s Thursday report, as backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky did not practice with an illness.
Otherwise, the team’s injury report was largely the same as on Wednesday. Linebacker Terrel Bernard (elbow), defensive end Joey Bosa (hamstring/wrist), offensive lineman Spencer Brown (shoulder), and receiver Joshua Palmer (ankle) all remained limited.
Safety Cole Bishop (calf) and tight end Dalton Kincaid (knee) remained full.
After missing Wednesday’s walk-through due to a personal matter, tight end Dawson Knox was back as a full participant on Thursday.
The 11-2 Patriots and 11-2 Broncos are tied for the best record in the NFL. They’ve each won 10 games in a row.
And they’re both underdogs at home in Week 15.
The Patriots, who can clinch the AFC East by completing the sweep of the Bills, are 1.5-point underdogs against Buffalo. Coach Mike Vrabel undoubtedly will find a way to use that to poke and prod his players — even if the Bills had nothing to do with the setting of the line.
Ditto for the Broncos. They’re 2.5-point underdogs at home against the Packers. That one is a bit more defensible, since the Broncos have played plenty of games against overmatched foes, with very few truly convincing wins. (Still, coach Sean Payton likely will have a thing or two to say to his players about the betting line.)
The spreads are driven in part by wagering patterns. Bettors still don’t believe in the Patriots and Broncos the way they could, or perhaps should.
In contrast, the gamblers continue to cling to the idea that the 6-7 Chiefs, who are 5.5-point favorites against the 9-4 Chargers, will emerge from their current funk.
However it goes, it adds a little spice to the 15th weekend of regular-season football, with all three games having postseason significance to both teams.
One week ago today, the Bills acquired former Steelers cornerback Darius Slay on waivers. Slay has still not reported.
Per agent Drew Rosenhaus, Slay remains undecided about playing again in 2025. For now, Slay is spending time with his family and taking a break from football.
The Bills placed Slay on the reserve/did not report list. They have yet to announce any plans beyond that. By all appearances, they’re waiting to see what Slay does.
On Wednesday, coach Sean McDermott referred any questions about Slay to G.M. Brandon Beane.
The Bills could, if they choose, pursue the recovery of a portion of the $8.74 million signing bonus Slay received from the Steelers as part of his one-year deal. They also could release him, which would subject him to waivers again.
The last time around, the Eagles also made a claim. The Bills had priority. Some in league circles believe Slay had hoped to get back to Philadelphia. When Slay appeared on a podcast last week, he wouldn’t say whether he would have reported to the Eagles, if they had secured the balance of his deal.
The Bills needed a win last Sunday to keep serious hopes of winning another AFC East title alive and quarterback Josh Allen came up big in the snow to get it for them.
Cincinnati took a 11-point lead over Allen and the Bills in the first half before the 2024 MVP was able to get things going. Allen threw touchdowns in the second and third quarter as the Bills kept pace with the Bengals and then ran for a 40-yard score to cut the deficit to three points. The Bills took a lead on an interception return by Christian Benford and Allen then helped put the game away with his third touchdown pass of the day.
Allen finished the afternoon 22-of-28 for 251 yards and he ran for 78 yards in the 39-34 win.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced that Allen has been named the AFC offensive player of the week for that effort. It’s the third time he’s taken those honors and the 18th time in his career.
