With a trip to Super Bowl 59 on the line, Josh Allen wasn't the Buffalo Bills most valuable player. It was running back James Cook. Cook enjoyed a breakout 2024, recording his first 1,000-yard rushing campaign and tying for the league lead with

Buffalo faced fourth-and-goal form the Chiefs' 1 with 2 minutes, 56 seconds left in the third quarter. Quarterback Josh Allen took a shotgun snap, ran an option and pitched the ball to Cook, who got low to the ground to try to evade safety Justin Reid.

The Bills took their first lead on the Chiefs in the AFC championship game thanks to an incredible effort from running back James Cook. On fourth down near the goal line, quarterback Josh Allen tossed the ball over to Cook on his right.

Outside of his big-play ability, Cook's had a nose for the endzone this season. He posted a career-high 18 touchdowns during the regular season and has found paydirt thrice during the postseason. Cook's second touchdown of the evening against the Chiefs may have been his best of the season.

Late in the third quarter on a fourth-and-goal at the 1-yard line, the Bills went for it as Josh Allen ran an option play, pitching it to running back James Cook, who managed to dodge one would-be tackler, bounce off another and extend the ball across the plane of the end zone while falling to the ground to give the Bills a 22-21 lead.

James Cook joined an exclusive club of Buffalo Bills players with his touchdown in the 1st half of the AFC Championship Game.

James Cook is Mr. Touchdown for the Buffalo Bills. The running back scored his second touchdown of the AFC Championship Game on Sunday in the third quarter to give the Bills a 22-21 lead. Cook took a pitch from Josh Allen on a fourth down and thrust the ball across

Don't let anyone say James Cook didn't put his heart on the line in Sunday's AFC title game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. In a budding instant classic, with Buffalo in position to take the lead for the first time all game at the end of the