Brandon Allen

BIOGRAPHY

Brandon Allen was born on September 5th, 1992, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is a quarterback in the NFL.

At high school, Allen joined the Razorback football program rated as the fifth-best pro-style quarterback in the nation, according to Rivals.com and the No. 3 prospect in the state by HawgSports.com, he was honored with the Landers Award, given annually to the top prep football player in the state of Arkansas, and led Fayetteville High School to the Arkansas Class 7A state title game in 2010, finishing the season with a 10-4 record.

Allen threw for 3,408 yards and 38 touchdowns as a senior, going the entire regular season without throwing an interception, totaled more than 10,000 passing yards in three seasons under head coach Daryl Patton as Fayetteville’s starting signal-caller, showed athleticism in final prep season by also rushing for more than 500 yards, being ranked as a top 200 prospect nationally by Rivals.com, ranked as the No. 31 quarterback prospect in the nation by Scout.com, named NWA Media’s Big Six Football Player of the Year and was selected to the AP’s Arkansas Super Team as a senior. He was also an AHSAA All-State honoree in 2010, representing the Class 7A West Division, and received second-team all-state honors from ArkansasVarsity.com.

As a freshman in 2011, worked with the UA scout team while redshirting. As a redshirt freshman in 2012, he appeared in five games and made one start, finishing the season 21-of-49 passing for 186 yards and one touchdown, vs. Jacksonville State (Sept. 1, he made collegiate debut in the season-opening win and was 4-of-7 passing for 33 yards with two rushes for 30 yards, including a season-long 27 yarder, and vs. No. 1 Alabama (Sept. 15), he earned the start and finished the game with a season-high 10 completions on 18 attempts for 60 yards.

As a sophomore  in 2013, he appeared and started in 11 games, missing only the game at Rutgers due to an injury, finishing first season as the starter, going 128-of-258 passing for 1,552 yards and 13 touchdowns and added 29 yards and one rushing touchdown, totaling 13 touchdown passes which tied for 13th on Arkansas’ single-season list.

Vs. Louisiana (Aug. 31), he opened the season recording first multiple-touchdown game of his career, going 15-of-22 passing for 230 yards and three touchdowns, earning CFPA Honorable Mention Quarterback of the Week for Sept. 2, vs. Samford (Sept. 7), he was 9-of-17 passing for 125 yards and two touchdowns in the Razorbacks’ week two win, vs. Southern Miss (Sept. 14), was 2-of-5 passing for 33 yards in the first quarter before exiting the game with an injury suffered while scoring a rushing touchdown.

Against No. 10 Texas A&M (Sept. 28), he returned to action to open conference play and was 17-of-36 passing for a season-high 282 yards, season-high-tying three touchdowns, and a season-long 52-yard completion, at Ole Miss (Oct. 22), he completed 18 passes on 32 attempts for 193 yards and two touchdowns, vs. Mississippi State (Nov. 23), he was 10-of-17 passing for 114 yards and added two carries for four yards rushing, and at No. 15 LSU (Nov. 29), he closed the season with a season-high 19 completions on 29 attempts for 178 yards and two touchdowns.

As a junior in 2014, he started and participated in all 13 contests, completing the 2014 campaign going 190-of-339 passing for 2,285 yards and 20 touchdowns and added two rushing touchdowns, he threw five interceptions, the fewest in the conference and tied for the third-fewest in the FBS by a quarterback that started every game, ranked twenty touchdown passes ranks No. 6 in single-season school history and tied for eighth in the conference, and moved into sixth on the school’s all-time charts with 34 career touchdown passes.

Vs. Nicholls (Sept. 6), he completed 4-of-5 passes for 117 yards and a career-high four touchdowns, ranking tied for sixth for most single-game touchdown passes in program history, at Texas Tech (Sept. 13), he went 6-of-12 passing for 61 yards and added 27 yards rushing and a rushing touchdown in the road win, vs. Northern Illinois (Sept. 20), he was 15-of-22 passing for 199 yards and two touchdowns, plus a rushing touchdown in the non-conference victory, vs. No. 7 Alabama (Oct. 11), he went 21-of-40 passing 246 yards and a career-long 54-yard touchdown toss, vs. No. 10 Georgia (Oct. 18), he collected career-high completions (28), attempts (45) and passing yards (296), while tossing two touchdowns, vs. UAB (Oct. 25), he completed 22-of-43 passes for 205 yards and a pair of scores in the win over the Blazers, at No. 1 Mississippi State (Nov. 1), he  connected on 22-of-43 passes for 238 yards, vs. No. 20 LSU (Nov. 15), completed 16-of-27 tosses for 169 yards in the shutout win over the Tigers, vs. No. 8 Ole Miss (Nov. 22), was 5-of-10 passing for 87 yards and a touchdown before exiting in the second frame due to injury in Arkansas’ second-consecutive shutout over the Rebels, and vs. Texas (Dec. 29), he earned Advocare V100 Texas Bowl MVP honors in Arkansas’ season finale after going 13-of-23 for 160 passing yards and two touchdown passes.

In 2015, he started and participated in all 13 contests, made 34 consecutive starts at quarterback which is the longest streak for an Arkansas quarterback since joining the SEC in 1992, ended his final season going 244 of 370 passing for 3,440 yards and 30 passing touchdowns along with one rushing touchdown, had 30 passing touchdowns ranks No. 2 in single-season school history and second in the SEC, made 64 career touchdown passes is a school record, tied for the highest ESPN Total QBR in the country (87.8) with Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Baylor’s Seth Russell, led SEC in passer rating (166.48), yards per attempt (9.3), and touchdowns passing against conference opponents (21), and attempted the fifth-most passes in a single season in school history with 370 and moved up to second in school history in career passing attempts with 1,016.

He recorded the fourth-most completions in a single season in school history with 244 and climbed to second in school history with 583 career completions, had the second-highest single-season completion percentage in Razorback history at .659 and finished his career with the third-best career completion percentage in school history at .574, and finished his senior year with 3,440 passing yards, good for fourth-most in a single-season in school history. He was one of three quarterbacks in school history to pass for 3,000-plus yards in a season (Ryan Mallett and Tyler Wilson) and had four 300-plus yard passing games, including three 400-plus yard passing efforts.

In the month of November, paced the SEC with 14 touchdown passes (third-most nationally) and a 179.21 passer rating (fifth-best nationally), holds the top two single-game passing touchdown records with seven against Mississippi State (Nov. 21) and six at Ole Miss (Nov. 7), vs. UTEP (Sept. 5),  went 14-of-18 for 308 yards and four touchdown passes, his first 300+ yard game of his career, vs. Toledo (Sept. 12), he threw for 412 yards while going 32-of-53 and added 23 yards on three rushes, tied for second-most pass completions and pass attempts in a single game in school history and fourth-most yards in a game, vs. Texas Tech (Sept. 19), went 16-of-21 for 196 yards and a pair of scores, plus 22 yards rushing on six attempts, and vs. No. 14 Texas A&M (Sept. 26), he completed 20-of-25 passes for 225 yards and one touchdown while rushing eight times for 35 yards.

At Tennessee (Oct. 3), he threw for 219 yards on 11-of-24 passes and one score, also ran for 23 yards on six carries in the road win, at No. 8 Alabama (Oct. 10), he went 15-of-32 for 176 yards and two touchdown passes, vs. Auburn (Oct. 24), he threw for 233 yards and three touchdowns while going 19-of-32 through the air in the four overtime thriller, vs. UT-Martin (Oct. 31), he went 14-of-19 for 265 yards and two touchdowns, also recorded one rushing touchdown in the victory, at No. 18 Ole Miss (Nov. 7), he threw six touchdowns while completing a school record 33 passes on 45 attempts with 442 passing yards in the road win, good enough for the second most passing yards in a single game in school history, at No. 9 LSU (Nov. 14), he threw for one score while connecting on 9-of-16 passes with 141 yards in the road victory, vs. Mississippi State (Nov. 21), he threw for a school record seven touchdowns while going 30-of-43 for 406 yards, vs. Missouri (Nov. 27), he went 11-of-17 for 102 yards in the regular season finale and vs. Kansas State (Jan. 2), he connected on 20-of-26 tosses for 315 yards for one touchdown in the bowl victory.

Allen was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the sixth round (201st overall) in the 2016 NFL Draft. On May 5, 2016, Allen signed a 4-year $2.48 million contract, which included a $147,687 signing bonus. Allen was the Jaguars third-string quarterback his rookie season behind Blake Bortles and Chad Henne. He was waived by the Jaguars on September 3, 2017, following final roster cuts for the 2017 season.

On September 4, 2017, Allen was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Rams. He was inactive for every game of the season as the Rams' third-string quarterback behind Jared Goff and Sean Mannion. He was placed on injured reserve on December 20, 2017.

On September 18, 2018, Allen was waived by the Rams and was re-signed to the practice squad the next day.

Allen signed a reserve/future contract with the Rams on February 7, 2019. On August 30, 2019, but was released as part of final roster cuts. On September 1, 2019, Allen was claimed off waivers by the Denver Broncos.

Allen re-signed with the Bengals on a one-year contract on March 18, 2022. Allen joined the San Francisco 49ers in 2023.