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Barry Werner

Josh Allen goes as the seventh overall pick in back-to-back years

Talk about the ultimate in oddities.

What are the chances players with the same name would be drafted in back-to-back drafts, let alone with the pick pick in the same round, the first, no less?

With the seventh pick in 2018, the Buffalo Bills selected a quarterback out of Wyoming named Josh Allen.

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Fast forward to Thursday and the Jacksonville Jaguars are on the clock for the seventh pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. Call it irony, coincidence, whatever, but Tom Coughlin and his brass select … Josh Allen, defensive stalwart from Kentucky.

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Unfortunately, the Bills and Jags do not play in 2019, so there is no chance for Josh Allen to sack Josh Allen. Sometime in the future …

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