Josh Allen Has Hypnotized The Top NFL Draft Experts

The NFL draft season has a tendency of repeating itself. Josh Allen is proving that much with what he’s managed to do over the past couple months.

Pre-draft reveals one thing above else. Experts can’t help but fall in love with physical traits. No matter how well or poorly a player performs in college if he’s an athlete who can do things very few others can do? He’s often got the attention and even love of many in the media. Allen is the 2018 encapsulation of this reality.

Here’s a player that from a pure numbers standpoint has no business being the conversation of a 1st round draft pick. His final year at Wyoming he managed just 1,812 yards passing with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions in 11 games. All this while completing barely 56% of his passes. This guy is likely going to be a top 10 pick. How is that possible?

The simple answer is rare physical attributes and an apparent intelligence that shows up in interviews. So much in fact that some of the most prominent draft experts have heaped an almost ridiculous amount of praise upon him.

Is the Josh Allen hype train starting to go too fast?

Keep in mind these are not secondary guys saying this stuff. Mel Kiper has been doing this since the 1980s. Charley Casserly is a former GM who won a Super Bowl. Mike Mayock is possibly the most respected draft personality going today and a former player himself. These guys get paid a lot of money because they work hard at what they do. For them to say this about Allen despite such a high number of red flags? It’s interesting.

Perhaps this means Allen didn’t have the best situation to thrive at Wyoming. Certainly a fair criticism. His surrounding talent both at wide receiver and the offensive line was subpar. Still, he didn’t exactly face top tier competition. If he were that good, shouldn’t he have dominated most of the teams he faced? He didn’t. Maybe he just needs to get into the right system but Allen feels like a huge gamble this year in spite of such renowned experts drinking the kool-aid.