Josh Allen College Career

Last Modified Jun 4, 2021 08:50 GMT


NameJoshua Patrick Allen
Age25 yrs (Born May 21, 1996)
PositionQuarterback
CollegeWyoming
Draft year2018 (1st round, 7th overall by Buffalo Bills)


Josh Allen College Career


Drafted in the 2018 NFL Draft as the seventh overall by the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). Before attending college at the University of Wyoming, he played one year of junior college football at Reedley College. Josh Allen’s college stats have been nothing less than impressive. He has helped lead Wyoming’s Cowboys to a Mountain West Conference division title and two bowl games.


What college did Josh Allen go to?


Josh Allen was at the University of Wyoming where he played for three seasons, and he played one season at Reedley College before transferring to Wyoming. Wyoming is a public research University whereas Reedley is a community college.


When did Josh go to college?


Allen played three seasons from 2015-2017 at the University of Wyoming. He played at Reedley for one season in 2014 before transferring.


Josh Allen College Career


Reedley College


Allen spent only one season with Reedley College, which is a junior college, and in that one season alone he has performed phenomenally aiding Reedley's performance in the national scenario. However, Allen only became the team's starter after he ran four touchdowns after coming off the bench in the fourth game in 2014. For the rest of the season, he scored 25 touchdowns with only 4 interceptions.


Allen’s Reedley coaches thought he would receive many FBS scholarship offers but in spite of Allen sending out mass emails to every head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and quarterback coach in FBS, he received responses from only a small number of schools. Apparently only Eastern Michigan and Wyoming offered him a scholarship which was quite unexpected.


University of Wyoming


As it would seem, luck was still wasn’t on Allen’s side as initially, Wyoming's coaches visited Reedley to scout another potential transfer. However, former Fresno State assistant Dave Brown, who had since become part of the inaugural staff of new Cowboys head coach Craig Bohl, and was familiar with Allen, urged offensive coordinator Brent Vigen to recruit him. Vigen took up Brown on his request and began analyzing Allen. He noticed a lot of similarities between Allen and Carson Wentz. Wentz was a quarterback he had recruited in 2010 while he was at North Dakota State, in the same role. Wentz later went on to become the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Allen and Wentz shared their small-town, multi-sport, and late-blooming background, and were similar in size too. Finally, he received an offer from Wyoming and enrolled there prior to the 2015 season.


Allen played in two games and made one start in his first year at Wyoming. Unfortunately, he broke his collarbone which ended his season and thus in his first career start he could attempt only four passes. He qualified for a medical redshirt as the injury occurred early in the season. Allen became Wyoming's starter only after returning from the injury in 2016. He threw for over 3,200 yards and 28 touchdowns that year. Allen contemplated declaring for the 2017 NFL draft, but upon his coach’s and family’s advice, he decided to stay in school one more year as that would help improve his long-term NFL prospects. Reports claim that he also went to Wentz to seek some advice. Wentz told him that he would have many NFL veterans depending on him to "win games and help secure their jobs." Allen threw for 1,812 yards, 16 touchdowns, and six interceptions as he eventually remained at Wyoming in 2017.


Josh Allen College Stats


Games


SeasonTeamGPGS
2014Reedley College106
2015Wyoming21
2016Wyoming1414
2017Wyoming1111
Wyoming totals
2726

Passing


SeasonTeamCmpAttPctYdsAvgLngTDIntRate
2014Reedley College127259492,0557.966265101.4
2015Wyoming4666.7518.51900127.8
2016Wyoming209373563,2038.6542815144.9
2017Wyoming15227056.31,8126.747166138.1
Wyoming totals
36564956.25,0667.8544421137.7

Rushing


SeasonTeamAttYdsAvgTD
2014Reedley College1206605.510
2015Wyoming34013.30
2016Wyoming1425233.77
2017Wyoming922042.25
Wyoming totals
2377673.212

Josh Allen College Record


Allen led an offense that averaged 452.2 yards of total offense per game in his only season with Reedley and was ranked No. 9 in total offense among all California junior-college teams. Moreover, Reedley got ranked No. 7 among all California junior colleges with an average of 285.3 passing yards per game, scored 39.4 points per game to rank No. 10 in the state, and ranked 26th with an average of 166.9 rushing yards. Individually considering, for the 2014 season, Allen was tied at No. 7 with 26 touchdown passes, among all California junior-college quarterbacks. As a freshman among California JUCO quarterbacks he was ranked 20th in passing yards, and with an average of 66.0 yards per game, was ranked 42nd in the state in rushing.


Talking about his Wyoming career, in total offense, Allen accounted for 5,833 yards including 5,066 passing yards and 767 rushing yards. He has 57 touchdowns to his name for his career (44 passing, 12 rushings, and 1 receiving). He threw 44 touchdown passes against 21 interceptions. As a starter, his combined record in 2016 and 2017 was 16-9 for a 64.0 winning percentage.


Josh Allen College Highlights and Honors


•2018 NFL Scouting Combine Participant

•2018 North Team Most Outstanding Player, Senior Bowl

•2018 Ranked by numerous NFL personnel as a First Round Draft Pick

•2017 Most Valuable Player, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

•2017 Davey O’Brien Award Watch List

•2017 Manning Award Watch List

•2017 Maxwell Award Watch List

•2017 Walter Camp Award Watch List

•2017 Preseason Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year

•2017 Manning Passing Academy

•Two-year Team Captain as voted by his teammates


Also Read: Who is Josh Allen's Girlfriend, Brittany Williams?


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