Allen is soaring away in the NFL’s MVP race. Allen, who just earned this third AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors this season, has donned his Superman cape to help the Bills reach a new level in 2024. And Allen heats up as the weather gets colder. Buffalo’s superstar QB leads the NFL with 6,937 offensive yards and 70 offensive TDs in December and January since 2020, 22 more scores than any other player in the league over that span, per Next Gen Stats. He’s won 16 of his last 17 regular season games in those months, too.
Allen, who is making history on what feels like a weekly basis, has been unstoppable this month. Over the past four weeks, Allen has been the top overall fantasy scorer, tacking on eight passing TDs, seven rushing TDs and a receiving TD while turning the ball over just once. His Bills have won eight of their last nine games and have scored 30+ points in eight consecutive matchups, tied for the longest streak in a single season in NFL history.
His Week 16 opponents have not found as much success. The Patriots, whom Allen has beaten in four of their last five meetings, are riding a four-game losing streak and have given up 25 or more points in each of those losses. Allen has thrown a league-high 16 TDs when blitzed and New England has allowed 13 passing TDs (tied for the most in the NFL) when blitzing. The truth is Allen would run past — and through — any opponent he faces this week, but a favorable, familiar foe has Buffalo’s Superman poised to keep flying high. (Check out this All-22 playlist of Allen beating the blitz through the air.)
Allen has posted 40-plus fantasy points in back-to-back games and a whopping 145.56 points over his last four — for reference, Drake Maye has scored 149.82 points all season. Allen is the hottest player in fantasy and probably the hottest we’ve seen since 2006 LaDainian Tomlinson. Meanwhile, the Patriots have allowed 21.9 fantasy points per game to QBs over the last month. The biggest threat to Allen’s fantasy line is the chance he’ll be resting by the third quarter, but you can still expect 25-30 points before he takes a seat.
