Move over, Steve Young. With his 13-yard scamper in the second one quarter of the Bills’ 24-18 win in opposition to the Buccaneers, Josh Allen knotted himself with the Pro Football Hall of Famer for the second-most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in NFL history. The Bills quarterback got here into this matchup with 42 occupation rushing touchdowns, and he now reveals himself aligned with Young and simplest taking a look as much as the all time chief, former Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.Â
This ranking got here one force after the Bills had been not able to punch it in with the ball sitting on the 1-yard line. Despite Allen’s nostril for the top zone, he did not obtain a rushing strive on that force, however made up for it after which some at the resulting ownership. He dropped again from the Tampa Bay 13-yard line and scrambled up the center of the sphere to edge his means via for the landing and align himself with Young in the history books.Â
Young completed his occupation as the all time main landing rusher again in 1999 and held that document till Week 1 of the 2016 season when Newton surpassed him. The ex-Panthers quarterback, who final performed in the NFL in 2021, created far between Young and Allen as he these days has the document set at 75 rushing touchdowns.
While Allen is now 32 rushing ratings at the back of Newton, he’s on tempo to sooner or later take down the document. He necessarily averages a rushing landing each different sport, so it would take him a little beneath 4 seasons to tie Newton for the document at his present fee.Â
When/if Allen does achieve Newton, he could possibly cling the document for a bit. Aaron Rodgers is the following lively quarterback at the back of Allen and has simply 35 rushing touchdowns over his occupation. Jalen Hurts might be Allen’s largest danger to be unseated, as Hurts has 32 occupation rushing touchdowns to this point. Lamar Jackson, who was once in the similar draft magnificence as Allen, follows him with 29 occupation rushing touchdowns.Â