50 free Josh Allen trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Josh Allen got zero Division I scholarship offers out of high school, spent a year at Reedley College, and had to email every FBS coaching staff in the country before Wyoming took a chance on him. Seven years later he was the NFL's Most Valuable Player and the league's all-time leader in quarterback rushing touchdowns, having dragged the Buffalo Bills to their first division title in a quarter century. This quiz covers the whole story: the 3,000-acre cotton farm near Firebaugh, the mass email, Craig Bohl's visit, the trade up to No. 7 in the 2018 draft, the hurdle over Anthony Barr, the 13-seconds heartbreak against Kansas City, the record-breaking 2024 MVP season, the $330 million contract, the Hailee Steinfeld wedding and the fan donations that named a hospital wing after his grandmother. Some questions are easy for any Bills Mafia member; the ones about specific records and stat lines are for people who watch every snap. Every answer is checked against a reference source and each question links to where the fact was confirmed.
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Q 01Josh Allen grew up on a 3,000-acre farm near which small California town?
Firebaugh
The family farm was founded in 1975 by his grandfather, and his Swedish great-grandfather Arvid settled in the area during the Great Depression.
Q 02What crop was primarily grown on the Allen family farm?
Cotton
Allen was a National FFA member and ranked in the top four nationally in diversified crop production of cantaloupe, cotton and wheat in 2014.
Q 03How many NCAA Division I scholarship offers did Allen receive out of high school?
None
He was about 6'3" and 180 pounds and skipped the elite camps to play basketball and baseball. San Diego State offered only a walk-on spot with no guaranteed snaps.
Q 04Which college program did Allen root for as a kid but fail to get a scholarship from?
Fresno State
Head coach Tim DeRuyter passed on him twice; Allen sent one final pointed email noting the Bulldogs had committed a quarterback both shorter and lighter than him.
Q 05Where did Allen play his one season of JUCO football before transferring to Wyoming?
Reedley
An assistant coach there was married to his cousin. He came off the bench in game four, ran for four touchdowns and never gave the job back.
Q 06How did Allen try to get FBS programs' attention near the end of his junior-college season?
He mass-emailed every FBS coaching staff in the country
Only Eastern Michigan and Wyoming offered, and Eastern Michigan pulled its offer when he visited Wyoming.
Q 07Which Wyoming head coach was the only FBS head coach to visit the Allen family farm?
Craig Bohl
Bohl told Allen's father, 'There's only one quarterback we want and that's your son. He's going to be the face of our program.'
Q 08Wyoming's offensive coordinator compared Allen to which quarterback he had recruited at North Dakota State?
Carson Wentz
Wentz later advised Allen to stay in school an extra year, warning that in the NFL veterans would depend on him to 'win games and help secure their jobs.'
Q 09What injury cut short Allen's first season at Wyoming after just four pass attempts in his first start?
A broken collarbone
Because it happened so early in the year he qualified for a medical redshirt, then took over as starter in 2016.
Q 10Which postseason game did Allen win with Wyoming in December 2017 before declaring for the NFL draft?
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
The 37–14 win over Central Michigan capped an 8–5 season. He left Wyoming with a social science degree.
Q 11In 2025 Wyoming announced Allen would receive an honor no player in program history had received. What was it?
His No. 17 jersey retired
The ceremony took place on November 22, 2025; he was also inducted into the school's athletics hall of fame that year.
Q 12With which pick of the 2018 NFL draft did the Bills select Allen?
7th
Buffalo traded up from 12th with Tampa Bay to get him. Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen were among the other first-round quarterbacks that year.
Q 13Which team did the Bills trade with to move up and draft Allen?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Q 21Allen played the 2020 upset of Seattle one day after what personal loss?
The death of his grandmother
Fans responded by donating to Oishei Children's Hospital in $17 increments, and the hospital named its Patricia Allen Pediatric Recovery Wing in her honor.
Q 22In what dollar increments did Bills fans donate to Oishei Children's Hospital for Allen's grandmother?
$17
Seventeen is Allen's jersey number. The hospital named a 10th-floor wing after Patricia Allen and the family set up a fund in her name.
Q 23Who beat Allen for the 2020 NFL MVP award, with Allen finishing second?
Aaron Rodgers
ESPN's Dan Graziano had called Allen 'the ultimate boom-or-bust NFL draft prospect' — a raw arm with huge physical gifts.
Q 14Which quarterback did Allen replace to make his NFL debut in Week 1 of 2018?
Nathan Peterman
Peterman was benched with a 0.0 passer rating in a 47–3 loss to Baltimore; Allen was named the starter three days later.
Q 15Which Vikings linebacker did Allen famously hurdle for a first down as a rookie in 2018?
Anthony Barr
The play went viral during a 27–6 win, Buffalo's first of the season, and hurdling defenders became an Allen trademark he repeated against the Chiefs and Cardinals.
Q 16Which Jaguars cornerback called Allen 'trash' before he ran for a franchise-record 99 yards against Jacksonville?
Jalen Ramsey
The 99 rushing yards broke Tyrod Taylor's Bills record for a quarterback in a game; Allen ran for 135 more the following week.
Q 17Which unwanted statistic did Allen lead all qualified NFL passers in during both 2018 and 2019?
Lowest completion percentage
He completed 52.8% as a rookie and 58.8% in 2019 — before an accuracy leap in 2020 that turned him into an MVP candidate.
Q 18In the 2019 Wild Card loss to Houston, Allen did something unusual for a quarterback. What?
He caught a touchdown pass on a trick play
John Brown threw him the 16-yard score, echoing Nick Foles' Philly Special. Buffalo blew a 16–0 lead and lost 22–19 in overtime.
Q 19In 2020 the Bills won their first AFC East title since which year?
1995
That was six months before Allen was born. He clinched it with a 48–19 win over Denver in which he accounted for four touchdowns.
Q 20Whose franchise records for total TDs and single-season passing TDs did Allen break in 2020?
Jim Kelly
He passed the Hall of Famer's single-season mark in a Monday night rout of the Patriots, Buffalo's first sweep of New England since 1999.
Allen received four first-place votes, more than Mahomes, after throwing for 4,544 yards and 37 touchdowns.
Q 24Why was the Bills' 47-17 Wild Card win over New England in January 2022 called the first 'perfect offensive game'?
They scored a touchdown on every possession
Allen threw five touchdowns and only four incompletions — more touchdowns than incompletions in a playoff game.
Q 25In the '13 seconds' loss to Kansas City in January 2022, all four of Allen's touchdown passes went to whom?
Gabe Davis
Allen's 149.0 passer rating that postseason is the best ever recorded. Buffalo never touched the ball in overtime.
Q 26Whose record for highest passer rating in a single postseason did Allen break in 2021–22?
Joe Montana
Allen's 149.0 topped Montana's 146.4 from 1989, despite the season ending in overtime at Arrowhead.
Q 27In 2021 Allen was sacked and intercepted by an opposing defender who shared what with him?
His exact name
Jaguars defensive end Josh Allen got both — the first time an NFL defender had done that to a quarterback of the same name.
Q 28Allen's 98-yard touchdown to Gabriel Davis against Pittsburgh in 2022 tied which franchise record?
Longest passing play in Bills history
It came in a 38–3 rout in which Allen threw for 424 yards and four scores.
Q 29Which Bills player's on-field emergency made the 2022 Cincinnati game a no-contest?
Damar Hamlin
Allen still finished 2022 with his third straight season of 4,000-plus passing yards, 35-plus passing touchdowns and six-plus rushing scores.
Q 30In 2023 Allen posted a perfect 158.3 passer rating for the first time. Against which team?
Miami Dolphins
He went 21 of 25 for 320 yards and four touchdowns, and ran for another, in a 48–20 win.