Josh Allen College

Josh Allen played for two teams during his collegiate career: Reedley College and the University of Wyoming.

Drafted in the 2018 NFL Draft as the seventh overall by the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL) as of 2024. At the start of 2021, he was signed to a 6-year $258 million contract by the Bills. His NFL career consists of a lengthy list of achievements and accolades. The record holder of the highest passer rating in a single postseason, Allen has been nominated to the All-Pro Second Team once, and two times to the Pro Bowl. Revisiting the early years of Allen’s life, he was born in Firebaugh, California. His football career began at Firebaugh High School.

What college did Josh Allen go to?

Josh Allen was at the University of Wyoming where he played for three seasons, and he played one season at Reedley College before transferring to Wyoming. Wyoming is a public research University whereas Reedley is a community college. Allen played three seasons from 2015-2017 at the University of Wyoming. He played at Reedley for one season in 2014 before transferring.

Reedley College

Allen spent only one season with Reedley College, which is a junior college, and in that one season alone he performed phenomenally aiding Reedley's performance in the national scenario. However, Allen only became the team's starter after he ran four touchdowns after coming off the bench in the fourth game in 2014. For the rest of the season, he scored 25 touchdowns with only 4 interceptions.

Allen’s Reedley coaches thought he would receive many FBS scholarship offers but despite Allen sending out mass emails to every head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and quarterback coach in FBS, he received responses from only a small number of schools. Only Eastern Michigan and Wyoming offered him a scholarship which was quite unexpected.

University of Wyoming

As it would seem, luck was still not on Allen’s side as initially, Wyoming's coaches visited Reedley to scout another potential transfer. However, former Fresno State assistant Dave Brown, who had since become part of the inaugural staff of new Cowboys head coach Craig Bohl, and was familiar with Allen, urged offensive coordinator Brent Vigen to recruit him. Vigen took up Brown on his request and began analyzing Allen. He noticed a lot of similarities between Allen and Carson Wentz. Wentz was a quarterback he had recruited in 2010 while he was at North Dakota State, in the same role. Wentz later went on to become the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Allen and Wentz shared their small-town, multi-sport, and late-blooming background, and were similar in size too. Finally, he received an offer from Wyoming and enrolled there before the 2015 season.

Allen played in two games and made one start in his first year at Wyoming. Unfortunately, he broke his collarbone which ended his season and thus in his first career start he could attempt only four passes. He qualified for a medical redshirt as the injury occurred early in the season. Allen became Wyoming's starter only after returning from the injury in 2016. He threw for over 3,200 yards and 28 touchdowns that year. Allen contemplated declaring for the 2017 NFL draft, but upon his coach’s and family’s advice, he decided to stay in school one more year as that would help improve his long-term NFL prospects. Reports claim that he also went to Wentz to seek some advice. Wentz told him that he would have many NFL veterans depending on him to "win games and help secure their jobs." Allen threw for 1,812 yards, 16 touchdowns, and six interceptions as he eventually remained at Wyoming in 2017. He has helped lead Wyoming’s Cowboys to a Mountain West Conference division title and two bowl games.

Josh Allen College Stats

Games

Season	Team	GP	GS
2014	Reedley College	10	6
2015	Wyoming	2	1
2016	Wyoming	14	14
2017	Wyoming	11	11
Wyoming totals		27	26

Passing

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Int	Rate
2014	Reedley College	127	259	49	2,055	7.9	66	26	5	101.4
2015	Wyoming	4	6	66.7	51	8.5	19	0	0	127.8
2016	Wyoming	209	373	56	3,203	8.6	54	28	15	144.9
2017	Wyoming	152	270	56.3	1,812	6.7	47	16	6	138.1
Wyoming totals		365	649	56.2	5,066	7.8	54	44	21	137.7

Rushing

Season	Team	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
2014	Reedley College	120	660	5.5	10
2015	Wyoming	3	40	13.3	0
2016	Wyoming	142	523	3.7	7
2017	Wyoming	92	204	2.2	5
Wyoming totals		237	767	3.2	12

Josh Allen College Record

Allen led an offense that averaged 452.2 yards of total offense per game in his only season with Reedley and was ranked No. 9 in total offense among all California junior college teams. Moreover, Reedley was ranked No. 7 among all California junior colleges with an average of 285.3 passing yards per game, scored 39.4 points per game to rank No. 10 in the state, and ranked 26th with an average of 166.9 rushing yards. Individually, for the 2014 season, Allen was tied at No. 7 with 26 touchdown passes, among all California junior college quarterbacks. As a freshman among California JUCO quarterbacks, he was ranked 20th in passing yards, and with an average of 66.0 yards per game, was ranked 42nd in the state in rushing.

Talking about his Wyoming career, in total offense, Allen accounted for 5,833 yards including 5,066 passing yards and 767 rushing yards. He has 57 touchdowns to his name for his career (44 passing, 12 rushings, and 1 receiving). He threw 44 touchdown passes against 21 interceptions. As a starter, his combined record in 2016 and 2017 was 16-9 for a 64.0 winning percentage.

Josh Allen College Highlights and Honors

•2018 NFL Scouting Combine Participant

•2018 North Team Most Outstanding Player, Senior Bowl

•2018 Ranked by numerous NFL personnel as a First Round Draft Pick

•2017 Most Valuable Player, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

•2017 Davey O’Brien Award Watch List

•2017 Manning Award Watch List

•2017 Maxwell Award Watch List

•2017 Walter Camp Award Watch List

•2017 Preseason Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year

•2017 Manning Passing Academy

•Two-year Team Captain as voted by his teammates

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