{"id":863967,"date":"2026-04-11T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:18:27","slug":"former-afc-rival-compares-josh-allen-lamar-jackson-for-scariest-nfl-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863967\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFC Rival Compares Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson for \u2018Scariest\u2019 NFL QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no question Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have firmly placed themselves in the \u201cscariest\u201d NFL QB category. But who does Charles Omenihu think is more of a boogeyman?<\/p>\n

For the now Commanders defensive end, it\u2019s Allen.<\/p>\n

The former Texans, 49ers and Chiefs DE listed the Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u2019 signal caller atop his \u201cscariest\u201d NFL QBs list when joining former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho and former Buffalo Pro Bowler LeSean MCoy on the Speakeasy<\/a> podcast. The rest of his top five included Jackson, Matthew Stafford, Joe Burrow and Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n

His reasoning for listing Allen as the scariest is because he feels that unlike Jackson, the NFL is still trying to figure out how to defend the 2024 MVP.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think the league has truly figured [Allen] out,” said Omenihu. “With Josh, he’s going to drift backwards, run around and he’s so hard to tackle. He’s a large human being, hard to get down, he can make every throw. Every throw from no matter where he’s at. His arm strength is unbelieveble.”<\/p>\n

Omenihu compared this to Jackson drifting away on five-man rushes, ultimately having to make a backyard play.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, he might make a play that isn’t going to be the best play for the Ravens,” he said.<\/p>\n

On-field experience\"Josh<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen and Houston Texans’ defensive end Charles Omenihu (94). | JAMIE GERMANO\/ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle via Imagn Content<\/p>\n

Omenihu’s on-field matchups with Allen and Jackson give him a different level of context in his analysis. Starting his career with Houston and then eventually joining Kansas City for two Super Bowl runs and a title, the former Texas Longhorn has been pitted against both on numerous occasions, including in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Omenihu’s rookie season in 2019 actually included matching up with Allen in what would be both players’ first career playoff game<\/a>. He and his Chiefs also downed Allen’s Bills in the 2023 AFC divisional<\/a> and the 2024 AFC championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

KC and Omenihu also battled it out with Jackson and the Ravens during the 2023 playoffs with that season’s AFC championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s always dicey getting into the subjective player-to-player comparisons. But it’s hard not to factor in Omenihu’s playing experience against Allen and Jackson when talking about the “scariest” NFL QB. <\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills\u2019 quarterback Josh Allen (17) and Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu (90). | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no question Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have firmly placed themselves in the \u201cscariest\u201d NFL QB category.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-863967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116386276689115424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}