Josh Allen posted a 56 percent completion rate in his two seasons at Wyoming, which is not what you’d expect from a top-flight college quarterback.
Still, the top NFL Draft prospect believes that concerns about his accuracy are overblown. Allen cited those concerns as the ones that bother him most, and he thinks that teams should look past it when making their draft pick.
“Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it’s not great,” Allen told PFT Live, via Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk. “But I think that it’s a little blown out of proportion. I do think that I’m accurate. Jordan Palmer’s helped me out a lot throughout this process with getting my feet right. Once we did that [I’m] throwing the ball a little easier. The ball’s coming out and where it’s supposed to be.
“I think if you look at the film at the times that I did miss, my feet were jacked. Going back to our offensive system I was asked to do a lot of things within our system. Threw the ball downfield a lot. I am the one to admit that I didn’t put the ball where it needed to be all the time. But, you know, given the circumstances that we had in Wyoming, we won two back-to-back eight-win seasons. It was a place where we ended up winning football games. I think that I helped out in that manner putting the team in the best position to win football games.”
The thing is, Allen’s low completion percentages go back even further than Wyoming. It’s definitely a major concern, and it’s part of what makes him so divisive in the NFL community.
