JoshAllen

News: 5 days agoBills head coach Sean McDermott said Monday that Allen will start Sunday's matchup versus New England but will be in the game for a "very, very short-lived amount of time," Ryan O'Halloran of The Buffalo News reports.

Spin: The Bills are locked into the No. 2 seed in the AFC, and the team plans to play only some of its starters, per O'Halloran. The motivation for Allen to see the field at all could be simply to extend his 104-game streak of regular-season starts, in which case the MVP candidate may log no more than a few snaps. It goes without saying that Allen isn't going to be a viable play in fantasy given the extremely limited amount of time he'll likely be on the field in the regular-season finale. Mitchell Trubisky figures to see most of the QB snaps for the Bills against the Patriots.

ESPN Fantasy Projection: Allen is back for his seventh season with the Bills. The dual-threat quarterback has been a fantasy dynamo over the past three seasons, averaging 24.7 fantasy points per game (best among QBs). Allen lost Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis this offseason, which is notable because he averaged only 253.3 passing yards per game last season (his lowest since 2019) and he rushed for his fewest yards since 2020. He more than made up for the rushing decline with 15 rush TDs, which will be tough to repeat. It will be difficult to replace Diggs, but the team did add Curtis Samuel in free agency and Keon Coleman with the No. 33 pick in the draft. Allen is still firmly on the QB1 radar, but managers shouldn't be surprised if we see some regression in 2024.