Josh Allen predicted to eventually win Super Bowl after playing through bloody nose in Bills' win streak

Reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen has led the Buffalo Bills to a 3-0 start this season. In Week 2, Allen secured a dominant win over a division rival, beating the Jets 30-10 in front of a stunned MetLife Stadium crowd. Allen’s stat line may not have stood out the way it did during his four-touchdown masterclass in Week 1 against the Ravens, but the superstar quarterback’s latest outing represented more than just a regular-season win.

Toward the end of the first quarter, Allen took a hit to the face on a designed run and immediately exited the game with a bloody nose. The injury kept Allen off the field for a single play before he trotted back onto the field, rejoining his teammates in the huddle with his nose plugged up to stop the bleeding.

The Athletic’s Ian O’Connor wrote about Allen’s supreme toughness, declaring the quarterback “too good and too tough” to retire without winning Buffalo a Super Bowl.

“Allen is a freakish combination of Cam Newton and Big Ben Roethlisberger, skilled enough to win five straight division titles after Tom Brady walked away from the AFC East. He doesn’t even throw interceptions anymore. If anyone can finally deliver Buffalo its long-lost Super Bowl victory, Allen is the one,” O’Connor wrote. 

“At 29, with many prime years ahead of him, Allen is simply too good and too tough to leave this game without at least one championship ring. Sunday provided more evidence why … The quarterback took a shot to the nose and bled all over the place for the first time since his high school basketball days. When it was over in the Jersey Meadowlands, and he was asked how his famous face was holding up, Allen said, ‘We can breathe, so it’s good.’ Buffalo can breathe a bit easier. Someday, this club fighter will win himself a belt.”

Allen’s MVP defense continued in another divisional clash as he and the Bills took down an arch rival in the Miami Dolphins on Thursday Night Football. Allen threw for 213 yards and three touchdowns, becoming the fastest player in NFL history to reach 300 total touchdowns including the playoffs. He also became the sixth-fastest player to reach 200 career touchdown passes with his 15-yard strike to Khalil Shakir.