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Historic day leads to weekly award No. 17 for Buffalo Bills' No. 17

Three touchdowns passing and three touchdowns rushing were undeniable in this case
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Nov 16, 2025; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) celebrates a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Nov 16, 2025; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) celebrates a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images

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Josh Allen put the Buffalo Bills on his shoulders in the team's 44-32 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, and no one could look at someone else's performance in Week 11 and say it was better than his.

Allen won his 17th AFC Offensive Player of the Week award, as announced on Wednesday, after throwing and rushing for three touchdowns each as the Bills got back in the win column.

It was a historic day for the reigning NFL MVP, as he became the only player in NFL history with multiple games of 3+ passing TDs and 3+ rushing TDs after doing so in Week 15 last season against the Los Angeles Rams.

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Also, Allen became the player with the most career TDs by someone before 30 years of age with 290, passing Peyton Manning, who had 288.

With this latest win, Allen has the Bills back in the fold as Super Bowl contenders in the AFC alongside the rival New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts, both of which have only two losses.

Allen still trails a surprise figure in the MVP race, but if he keeps putting up numbers like he did on Sunday, he'll catch up in no time.

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Bills quarterback Josh Allen gets ready to pass to an open receiver during second-half action against the Buccaneers on Nov 16, 2025 at Highmark Stadium. | Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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OWEN KLEIN

Owen Klein has covered football, basketball and baseball for Penn State athletics as a broadcaster on local radio, including producing Penn State’s 2024 men’s basketball Big Ten Tournament games and calling Penn State football’s Whiteout vs. Washington in November 2024. He has internships with the Buffalo Bisons and CBS affiliate WIVB in Buffalo, NY, in the summer of 2025. He is a Penn State University broadcast journalism student at the Bellisario College of Communications majoring in broadcast journalism and is passionate about college and professional sports, the Pokémon Video Game Championships and the Buffalo Bills.

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