There may not be a player in the National Football League more beloved by his team’s fanbase than Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is by members of Bills Mafia. But Western New Yorkers aren’t the only ones who love the reigning league MVP.
Choose your favorite sportsbook or betting app, and right now, Josh Allen is listed as the favorite to win the NFL MVP for the second consecutive season. At first glance, this wouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Patrick Mahomes’ Super Bowl rings be damned, there’s a strong case to make that it’s Allen, not Mahomes, who is the best quarterback alive, and that alone would put him near the top of the MVP conversation.
However, to win back-to-back MVP Awards is a feat so rare that most of the league’s greatest players haven’t accomplished it. In fact, if Josh Allen keeps up this MVP pace for the remainder of Buffalo’s 13 games this season, and if voters give him the award for a second consecutive year, Allen would become only the 6th player in NFL history to win the MVP in back-to-back seasons.
Jim Brown – 1957-1958
Joe Montana – 1989-1990
Brett Favre – 1995-1997
Peyton Manning – 2008-2009
Aaron Rodgers – 2020-2021
Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen Off to Hot Start in 2025
With four weeks of the 2025 NFL season in the books, the Buffalo Bills are one of just two remaining 4-0 teams, joining the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles as the league’s last unbeatens. The 4-0 start to the season certainly helps Josh Allen’s MVP case, but compare Allen’s numbers over the first four games of 2025 to the very same sample size in 2024, and we’ll see a player who has somehow managed to take his game up to another level this year.
Josh Allen, first four weeks 2024 season – 3-1 record, 70-101, 69.3% completion, 814 passing yards, 7 passing touchdowns, 0 interceptions, 116.5 passer rating, 22 rushes, 106 rushing yards, 2 rushing touchdowns
Josh Allen, first four weeks 2025 season – 4-0 record, 85-121, 70.2% completion, 964 passing yards, 7 passing touchdowns, 1 interception, 109.7 passer rating, 31 rushes, 159 rushing yards, 3 rushing touchdowns
Aside from the numbers, one other thing working in Josh Allen’s favor is that he already has an primetime MVP performance banked away for voters to remember come January. It’s possible we won’t see a crazier or more memorable game than we did on the opening Sunday Night Football Game of the season, when the Bills overcame a 15-point deficit in the final four minutes versus the Baltimore Ravens.
Naturally, Allen was at the center of the comeback, and my goodness, he was absolutely marvelous. But at this point, we shouldn’t expect anything otherwise.
It’s not unrealistic or hyperbolic to suggest that Josh Allen is already in Dan Marino territory in terms of the best quarterbacks ever not to win a Super Bowl. Time and time again, even as the Bills have failed to get over that final hump in the AFC side of the Playoffs, it’s been the supporting cast that has failed Josh Allen, not the other way around.
However, even with as many questions as there are with the Bills‘ banged-up defense, this may be the best offensive ecosystem Allen has ever found himself in while playing in Buffalo.
No, the Bills don’t have a bonafide number one receiver, but with Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Joshua Palmer and Dalton Kincaid, there’s more than enough talent in Buffalo’s pass-catching group for the Bills to be among the best offenses in the NFL this season. Having an emerging running back in James Cook carrying the rock helps matters too.
To be honest, it’s starting to feel like Josh Allen may be ascending so quickly that he could almost single-handedly bring Buffalo back to the Super Bowl for the first time in over 30 years even if his supporting cast ends up failing him. And if he wasn’t already, if Josh Allen helps deliver the Buffalo Bills their first ever Super Bowl title, we might as well go ahead and anoint him the lifetime Don of Bills Mafia.
Josh Allen Favored By Sportsbooks to Make NFL History at Season’s End