Josh Allen works magic, connects with Gabe Davis for Bills TD

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Josh Allen is known for making immoderate astonishing throws, and helium added different chaotic 1 to his postulation Thursday to agelong the Buffalo Bills' pb implicit the New England Patriots successful the 2nd quarter.

On 3rd down from the New England 8-yard line, Allen stepped backmost successful the pouch and rapidly scrambled to his close with unit coming. Allen kept moving arsenic linebacker Mack Wilson Sr. pulled connected the backmost of his jersey, with the backmost shaking him disconnected to marque a propulsion from the sideline arsenic Wilson fell to toward Allen's feet. The walk into the extremity portion was a TD for wide receiver Gabe Davis and stretched the Bills' pb to 17-7. It was Davis' archetypal drawback of the game.

Allen's clip to propulsion connected the touchdown was 6.34 seconds, per NFL Next Gen Stats. It was Allen's 5th vocation passing touchdown taking astatine slightest six seconds to throw, tied for 2nd astir successful the NFL with Russell Wilson implicit the past 5 seasons. The lone backmost with much during that span is Patrick Mahomes (9).

On the throw, Allen was 0.3 yards distant from the sideline, tied for the closest to the sideline connected immoderate completion since NFL Next Gen Stats began tracking players successful 2016.