2025 · Player Season Review

Josh Allen

Bills · QB · ADP #1

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Josh Allen finished 2025 as the number one quarterback in total PPR scoring AND the number one quarterback in PPR per game — the fantasy MVP at the position, full stop. And here's the wild part: he did it carrying one of the weakest receiving corps in the league, with Buffalo grabbing Brandin Cooks and Gabe Davis midseason just to stay afloat while Dalton Kincaid battled injuries. The Bills looked like a .500 roster around him, and Allen threw on the Superman cape — the only player in the NFL with three thousand passing yards and five hundred rushing yards, smashing for four thousand two hundred forty-seven total yards and thirty-nine total touchdowns. He broke the fifth metatarsal in his foot in Week 16 at Cleveland and finished the game AND the season playing through it. A historic individual season that dragged a limited roster into the divisional round.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Allen averaged 22.8 PPR per game over sixteen starts to pace the position, and the shape of that scoring is boom-leaning with a real floor. His passing expected points added landed at plus 71.3 with a completion percentage over expected of plus 2.9 — he wasn't volume-padding, he was genuinely more accurate than the average quarterback on the same throws. The rushing expected points added of plus 38.8 on one hundred twelve carries is the separator: fourteen rushing touchdowns and five hundred seventy-nine rushing yards, a running-back-sized floor bolted onto a starting quarterback. He cleared 19 PPR in twelve of sixteen games and posted four explosive weeks above 28, including a 42.7 against Tampa Bay and a 38.8 season opener against Baltimore. The muffed weeks were real: a 6.9 in the Cleveland foot-break, an 8.1 dud at Houston with two picks and zero scores, and an 11.8 against the Jets. Ceiling-driven profile, but the ceiling hit so often the low points barely dented the total.

The play that captures the whole year: Week 14 against the Bengals, fourth quarter, fourth and three from the Cincinnati three-yard line, Bills up 32-28. Allen hit tight end J. Hawes on a short middle throw for the touchdown — a plus 4.17 expected points added conversion on a do-or-die down, in a game where he also ripped off a forty-yard scramble touchdown in the same quarter. That's the Allen fantasy identity in one drive: he passes for the score, and if the pass isn't there, he runs it in himself. Fourteen rushing touchdowns don't happen by accident. Neither does the number one finish at the position.

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