Josh Allen scores game-winning touchdown as Bills topple Jaguars in Wild Card Round

Josh Allen has yet won a roadworthy playoff game, and it took his Superman traits to get it done for his Buffalo Bills.

The Bills took down the Jacksonville Jaguars, 27-24, down Allen’s 2 rushing scores, including the game-winner connected Sunday afternoon.

The 4th fourth was electrical for some teams, arsenic each scored 2 touchdowns successful the 15 minutes that ensued. But it was Allen’s 2nd rushing people of the crippled that mattered astir successful the end.

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Josh Hines-Allen of the Jacksonville Jaguars sacks Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills during the 3rd 4th successful the AFC Wild Card Playoff crippled astatine EverBank Stadium connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Jacksonville, Florida.  (Mike Carlson/Getty Images)

Allen and the Bills’ discourtesy faced a 24-20 shortage aft Trevor Lawrence recovered Travis Etienne Jr. for a 14-yard touchdown catch, wherever helium broke 1 tackle and flew into the extremity zone. The Duval County assemblage went nuts, but the timepiece was inactive successful Buffalo’s favor.

After all, we’ve seen Allen person immoderate bully playoff heroics successful the past. But helium was 0-4 successful roadworthy playoff games for his vocation coming into this contest, and the unit was surely connected arsenic Jacksonville’s defence was making it hard for him each game.

Allen’s archetypal clutch infinitesimal of the thrust came erstwhile helium threw the shot 36 yards disconnected his backmost ft to Brandin Cooks to flip the tract into Jaguars territory. Cooks stepped up with 58 yards connected 3 receptions, including this cardinal 1 down the stretch.

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Then, the Bills recovered themselves with a fourth-and-inches play, the crippled connected the enactment from Jacksonville’s 11-yard line. It wasn’t hard to archer Buffalo was going to tally their mentation of the tush propulsion with Allen, but nary 1 expected what happened next.

Not lone did Allen get the propulsion helium needed for the archetypal down, but his teammates continued to thrust him guardant for 10 yards, astir uncovering the extremity zone.

On the precise adjacent play, aft officials reversed their archetypal ruling of a touchdown, the Bills went backmost to the good arsenic Allen was pushed into the extremity portion without overmuch of a Jaguars threat. Jacksonville seemed to privation them to people with conscionable implicit a infinitesimal near to play and down 3 points.

Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars throws a walk during the archetypal 4th against the Buffalo Bills successful the AFC Wild Card Playoff crippled astatine EverBank Stadium connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Jacksonville, Florida.  (Mike Carlson/Getty Images)

Given kicker Cam Little’s limb — helium reset the NFL’s longest made tract extremity grounds earlier this play — Lawrence didn’t request to spell excessively acold to let a accidental to nonstop the crippled to overtime.

But connected the precise archetypal play of the drive, a walk intended to Jakobi Meyers was tipped by Tre’Davious White, who had a tremendous game, and intercepted by information Cole Bishop. Bishop smartly fell to the turf and the crippled was implicit with the Jaguars not possessing immoderate timeouts.

The Bills volition present hold to spot who their adjacent hostile volition beryllium successful the Divisional Round.

In the container score, Allen was 28-of-35 for 273 yards with a touchdown walk to Dalton Kincaid successful the 4th quarter. He besides had 33 unreserved yards connected 11 carries, portion James Cook had occupation each time against the league’s apical rushing defense, with lone 46 yards connected 15 touches successful the backfield.

Khalil Shakir stepped up for Buffalo arsenic well, hauling successful each 12 of his targets for 82 yards.

For Jacksonville, Lawrence had 3 touchdown passes connected his 30 attempts, but besides 2 interceptions, the different by Shaq Thompson successful the archetypal half. He threw for 207 yards with 31 rushing yards connected six attempts to adjacent retired his season.

Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen looks to walk the shot during the archetypal fractional against the Jacksonville Jaguars successful an AFC Wild Card Round crippled astatine EverBank Stadium connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

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The unreserved onslaught was bully for the Jaguars, who saw Etienne prime up 67 and Bhayshul Tuten adding 51 connected lone 4 carries.

In the walk game, Parker Washington closed his play with yet different coagulated performance, hauling successful 7 catches for 107 yards to pb the game.

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