Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen relishes winning the MVP last season, an award he still continues to say was really a team honor, but also one that helped him finally shed the cloud hanging over him personally from the endless stream of doubters who have questioned him from the day he walked into the league as a big-armed passer from Wyoming.

Buffalo Bills fans already knew it. But with Josh Allen now in front of a national audience on HBO's Hard Knocks season opener, the rest of the football world gets to learn it, too. Allen is a quarterback for the everyman. NFL pundit Trey Wingo summed it up best with this simple post on X: