{"id":50714,"date":"2025-08-07T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:06:08","slug":"josh-allens-nfl-success-is-no-surprise-to-college-teammate-ayden-eberhardt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50714\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Allen\u2019s NFL success is no surprise to college teammate Ayden Eberhardt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B.C. Lions receiver Ayden Eberhardt, left, spent two college seasons with Josh Allen at Wyoming. Eberhardt and the Lions get Week 10 of the CFL season rolling on Thursday when they travel to Hamilton to face the Tiger-Cats.DARRYL DYCK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Ayden Eberhardt isn\u2019t the least bit surprised that Josh Allen has developed into one of the NFL\u2019s top quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

Long before Allen led the Buffalo Bills to dominance in the AFC East, he spent three years (2015-17) at Wyoming, where he and Eberhardt were teammates for two years. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Eberhardt is in his third season as a receiver with the CFL\u2019s B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n

And it didn\u2019t take Eberhardt \u2014 a former high school quarterback \u2014 long to understand Allen was different.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe first time I got there, we were just warming up,\u201d Eberhardt said. \u201cAnd after about 10 minutes I look up and he\u2019s like 80 yards down the field flicking the ball to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2019What? This is crazy. College is unreal. I knew the quarterbacks were good but, damn!\u2019 Arm talent, playmaking ability, leadership, he has it all so its been really cool to see him do his thing in Buffalo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buffalo selected the 6-foot-5, 237-pound Allen in the first round, No. 7 overall, of the 2018 NFL draft and he became the starter the following season. Allen has led the Bills to six playoff appearances, five straight AFC titles and two conference championship appearances.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s best passing season with Buffalo came in 2020 when he threw for 4,544 yards with 37 touchdowns. But he was named the NFL MVP last season after recording 3,731 passing yards with 28 touchdowns and just six interceptions while running for 531 yards (5.2-yard average) and 12 touchdowns in leading the Bills to a 13-4 regular-season mark.<\/p>\n

Buffalo dispatched Denver (31-7) and Baltimore (27-25) in the playoffs before losing a heartbreaking 32-29 decision to Kansas City in the AFC championship game.<\/p>\n

Unlike his college days, Allen has shown a deft passing touch with Buffalo. He enters the \u201925 campaign with a career 63.3 passing percentage with 195 TDs and 84 interceptions. He has also run for 4,142 yards (5.5-yard average) and 65 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

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Wyoming wide receiver Ayden Eberhardt, right, and Washington State defensive back Sean Harper Jr., left, collide during a NCAA college game Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, in Laramie, Wyo.Shannon Broderick\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Allen completed 365-of-649 passes (56.2 per cent) for 5,066 yards with 44 TDs and 21 interceptions over 27 games at Wyoming. The 29-year-old California native also ran 237 times for 767 yards (3.2-yard average) with 12 TDs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Josh Allen you see now is the Josh Allen I\u2019ve always known,\u201d Eberhardt said. \u201cHis work ethic is probably what I\u2019d credit his NFL success to and everything that\u2019s come with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, the guy just wants to win and he\u2019s going to do anything and everything he can to do that. In college, he showed flashes of these crazy plays of hurdling someone or running around and making a ridiculous throw right on the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s humility is also something that endears him to his teammates, Eberhardt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a great dude, on and off the field,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously his success in the NFL is awesome to see because he\u2019s such a great guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you can\u2019t help but root for people like that, you love to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eberhardt appeared in 42 games over five seasons (2017-21) at Wyoming \u2014 he redshirted in 2016. Eberhardt recorded 50 catches for 764 yards and two TDs while adding 14 special-teams tackles at the school and was named to the All-Mountain West Athletic team in his senior season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: B.C. Lions receiver Ayden Eberhardt, left, spent two college seasons with Josh Allen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,514,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-50714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nfl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}