Josh Allen has passed Peyton Manning. The Buffalo Bills quarterback scored on a 1-yard run against the New York Jets on Sunday, his 323rd career regular-season touchdown — one more than Manning's 322, the most any player has ever scored in his first 10 NFL seasons. And Allen did it in his ninth season, with a year and a half of that decade still to play.
The record-breaker came with 2:43 left in the first quarter at MetLife Stadium. Allen capped a 12-play, 63-yard drive by calling his own number from the 1-yard line, leaping over the pile for the score and a 7-0 Buffalo lead. It was also his 10th rushing touchdown of the season — the fourth straight year he has reached double digits on the ground, tying an NFL record, according to the Bills.
Allen walked into Sunday tied with Manning at 322. He matched the mark on Monday Night Football against the Minnesota Vikings, throwing a 25-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end Keleki Latu — the first catch of Latu's NFL career — with 44 seconds left before halftime. The Bills won that game 23-6 to move to 7-1, their best start since 1993.
The career total now reads 232 passing touchdowns, 89 rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns. Manning needed all 160 regular-season games of his first 10 seasons to reach 322. Allen broke the record in his 137th career game — 23 games faster — and he still has the rest of this season and all of 2027 to add to it.
Monday night was a milestone evening all around, not just for the record. In the same 23-6 win over Minnesota, Allen and running back James Cook both passed 5,000 career rushing yards — Allen reaching 5,006 and Cook 5,073 — a rare shared milestone for a quarterback and his running back on the same November night. Allen has now accounted for at least one touchdown in every game this season.
The timing fits the season Buffalo is having. The Bills are 7-1, their best start since 1993, and firmly in the chase for the AFC's No. 1 seed, while the Jets arrived at 2-7 having lost four straight. Allen's record came on the road, in the cold, against a division rival — the kind of afternoon that has defined his Buffalo career, and the kind of game the record books tend to remember.
The rushing half of the total is a record of its own kind. Allen's 89 rushing touchdowns are the most ever scored by a quarterback in NFL history, and the 10 he has run in this season alone would be a career year for most passers. It is the combination that makes the record so hard to reach: Manning got to 322 almost entirely through the air, while Allen keeps adding to his total with his legs, week after week.
Buffalo drafted Allen seventh overall in 2018, when plenty of scouts doubted whether a raw passer from Wyoming could become a franchise quarterback. Eight years later he is the Bills' all-time leader in total touchdowns, the owner of the league's most productive first decade ever, and the quarterback of a 7-1 team chasing the AFC's No. 1 seed.
THE STORY SO FAR
April 2018: Buffalo trades up to draft Josh Allen seventh overall out of Wyoming. November 9, 2026: Allen throws a 25-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end Keleki Latu against the Minnesota Vikings, his 322nd career regular-season touchdown, tying Peyton Manning's record for the most by any player in his first 10 seasons. Buffalo wins 23-6. November 15, 2026: Allen scores on a 1-yard run against the New York Jets with 2:43 left in the first quarter, his 323rd touchdown, breaking Manning's record outright in his 137th career game.
THE RECORD BOOK
Here is the leaderboard Allen now sits on top of, for the most total touchdowns in a player's first 10 NFL seasons: Josh Allen, 323. Peyton Manning, 322. Russell Wilson, 316. Patrick Mahomes, 301 entering Week 10. Dan Marino, 296. Allen is in his ninth season; Mahomes is in his 10th. And the gap will only grow — Allen has eight more regular-season games this year plus a full season in 2027 before his first 10 seasons are even complete.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
The Bills finish Sunday's game against the Jets, then keep chasing the AFC's top seed at 7-1. Every touchdown Allen scores from here on extends a record that is already his alone, and the 90-rushing-touchdown mark is one score away — a club that today holds only Hall of Fame running backs Eric Dickerson and Curtis Martin. The bigger question for Buffalo is whether the record-setting quarterback can turn the best start in a generation into a deep playoff run.
