Bills' Josh Allen on verge of breaking Cam Newton's NFL record for QB rushing touchdowns

Billy Heyen

Bills' Josh Allen on verge of breaking Cam Newton's NFL record for QB rushing touchdowns image

Josh Allen is on pace to set an NFL record this season.

And if the Buffalo Bills' QB has a strong start to the campaign, it might not even take very long to get there.

Allen is chasing Cam Newton's record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback.

In 155 career games played between the regular season and postseason, Newton ran for 77 TDs.

Allen has run for 72 touchdowns across his regular season and postseason career in 124 games.

It'll take just six rushing TDs for Allen to be the new record holder.

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Allen's career-low for rushing touchdowns in a regular season is six. He's also had seasons of 7, 8, 8, 9, 12 and 15.

Those two largest totals came in the last two seasons, with Allen running in 15 TDs in the 2023 regular season and then 12 last year.

It seems safe to expect Allen to get this record, but whether he holds onto it or not is a different story.

Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts ran for two touchdowns in the first half of Thursday night's Philly win over the Cowboys. That gave him 67 career rushing touchdowns in just 87 games.

Hurts has by far the best pace at the upper level of this list, so he may eventually end up the record holder. He even could beat Allen to 78 and be the first to pass Newton.

So the race is on between two powerful running QBs.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle