Josh Allen Camp Update — August 23: Four Touchdowns to the Tight Ends
2026 NFL Season · Sunday, Aug 23
Josh Allen's week was Thursday's joint practice in Berea, where the team site logged him throwing two touchdowns each to Dalton Kincaid and Jackson Hawes, one a fifty-five-yarder in the two-minute drill. He then watched Saturday's thirty-one to seven win from the sideline while his backups staged a genuine competition.
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Josh Allen threw four touchdowns to his tight ends in Thursday's joint practice against the Browns in Berea — two each to Dalton Kincaid and Jackson Hawes, including a 55-yard strike to Kincaid in the two-minute drill — per Maddy Glab in the team site's practice report, which also had Joshua Palmer as a repeat red-zone target. That practice was Allen's entire competitive week, by design. Head coach Joe Brady told the team the Saturday plan would ride on how Thursday went, and afterward ruled his starters out of the Cleveland game: "I feel like they got the work they needed," per Ralph Ventre at Bills On SI. Allen watched the 31 to seven win in street-clothes mode while Kyle Allen went 10 of 12 for 128 yards and a touchdown and Shane Buechele answered with a 71-yard scoring throw, a backup derby with real cutdown stakes one tier below him.
A team site charting its own quarterback earns a discount, but the shape of the report matters: the throws it logged were downfield, in competitive periods, against another roster. The context around Allen is the more objective story, and it cuts both ways. The receiver room thinned all week — Keon Coleman in a walking boot with a sprained foot, per NFL Network's Cameron Wolfe, Khalil Shakir off the practice field with no diagnosis offered — while DJ Moore returned to full practice from his ankle scare with, per Joe Buscaglia of The Athletic, no missed time. The tight end production in Berea may be a preview of where the ball goes if the wideout injuries linger into September.
The June preview called Allen the most reliable per-game profile at the position because his value rides on rushing, the quarterback trait that repeats — none of which August tests, since nobody designs quarterback runs in an exhibition. What this week could show was health and command, and the joint-practice file showed both.
What to watch next: whether Allen plays a snap in the preseason finale, and which receivers he still has upright when rosters cut to 53 on Sunday, August 30. We'll check after cut day.
_Data via nflverse._
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