Bills Trade Josh Allen? Radio Host Suggests Wild Deal

Not so fast. Those tuned in to “Hick At Night” witnessed a hypothetical trade dangling superstar quarterback Josh Allen to the Chicago Bears for the first and ninth picks in April’s NFL Draft.

“It allows you to get a quarterback that could be as good as, or even better than, Allen is right now,” Nick Hickey said. “I mean, you look at the scouting reports of Caleb Williams. I’m all in on him. I think he’s honestly going to give [Patrick] Mahomes a run for his money in five years to be the best quarterback in the NFL.”

Let this be a lesson in statistical reasoning. Bills fans and skeptics alike can reasonably assume that Allen is one of the five best quarterbacks on the planet, perhaps trailing only Mahomes. They have that – 100 percent.

Williams is arguably the best passer in this class and is generally viewed as a special talent. Even so, there is absolutely no guarantee he lives up to the hype. It’s a risk to assume any quarterback prospect will be a franchise quarterback. To be the best is something else entirely.

Having an elite quarterback on a rookie deal is the best opportunity to win a Super Bowl. Having an elite quarterback on any deal is the runner-up. Risking the best player in franchise history for a chance to maybe get a little better is asking for quarterback purgatory.

Hickey would move on to the timeline the Bills are on and how they are not good enough to win a Super Bowl. General manager Brandon Beane has his work cut out for him, and it’s fair to suggest that Buffalo’s roster needs to improve. His next point, though, is only more of a reason to keep Allen.

“Tomorrow, if this trade goes down, you’re (Chicago) a playoff team,” Hickey said. “Instantaneously a playoff team, borderline favorite to win the division, and on a shortlist of teams to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.”

If one player is capable of elevating a franchise to those heights, they probably shouldn’t be traded.

The cap will have its consequences, and the Bills’ best shot for a Super Bowl may have passed them by. But trading Allen is a one-way ticket back to the two decades of irrelevance Buffalo suffered through before his selection.