Road warrior: QB Josh Allen leads Bills to comeback win over Jaguars with 3 total TDs

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January 12, 2026

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Staring at a four-point deficit with 3:58 to play and 66 yards to go in enemy territory, Josh Allen also had history against him.

Allen had never won a playoff game on the road, with his Buffalo Bills having last won a postseason tilt away from home roughly four years before he was born.

Allen, who was also dealing with a preexisting foot injury, had also hurt his hand and knee during the game. He was battered but not beaten.

In 2:59, the reigning NFL MVP drove Buffalo down the field and into the Divisional Round with a dramatic come-from-behind 27-24 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Sunday’s wild-card game.

“It trickles down from him in terms of the team’s toughness,” Bills head coach Sean McDermott said of Allen, who finished his latest extraordinary NFL chapter with 306 yards of offense and three total touchdowns, “when your quarterback is that type of warrior, That type of competitor, from a leadership standpoint it just goes through the whole team. We’ve got to get him as healthy as we can, though, for next week. It’s not something we take lightly. I did think overall that he took some hits today, but there were also sometimes where we protected him well.”

The sixth-seeded Bills will be back on the road in the Divisional Round against the No. 1 Denver Broncos or No. 2 New England Patriots. Sunday’s win over the Jaguars, one in which they overcame two fourth-quarter deficits, was the first Buffalo playoff win on the road since the 1992 AFC Championship Game and the first for Allen after going 0-4 in previous road postseason games.

“We got to go do it again. We got to go do it again,” Allen said, via The Associated Press.

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Despite his injuries and the odds against him, Allen was clutch and unstoppable on the team’s game-winning drive, completing all five of his passes for 53 yards, keyed by a 36-yard gain to Brandin Cooks. He added 12 yards on three carries during the drive.

“It felt good to know we had all three timeouts,” Allen said. “We had enough time on the clock to run our offense where there was no panic, no rush.”

It had to feel great for his teammates and fans that the Bills had Allen at the helm.

Of Allen’s three TDs, his last was a 1-yard run that stood as the game-winner to conclude the aforementioned 66-yard drive. Allen’s score and Cole Bishop‘s subsequent game-clinching interception snapped the Bills franchise’s eight-game road losing streak in the playoffs.

Allen was 28 of 35 (80%) for 273 passing yards and a 15-yard touchdown to Dalton Kincaid midway through the fourth quarter that vaulted Buffalo back ahead, 20-17. Allen added 33 yards on 11 carries with two rushing scores.

Of course, it was his last that will live on in Buffalo legend — or at least until he writes another one.

Said Allen: “You know, we’re going to play for each other, we’re gonna fight to the very last second, and you saw that here today.”

In the first half, he was checked for a concussion, dinged up his hand on a throw and twisted his knee on his 2-yard touchdown run — Buffalo’s first trip to the end zone on Sunday. He was a warrior throughout, and a road warrior this time around who shrugged off injuries, the Jaguars and history.