Allen was voted to 5 straight Professional Bowls from 2017-21 and was chosen for a sixth time final season when he led the NFL with a career-high and franchise-record 108 receptions for 1,243 yards and 7 TDs regardless of lacking the ultimate 4 video games with a heel damage.
Final 12 months Allen grew to become the primary participant in NFL historical past to catch not less than 15 passes in three video games in a season. He additionally grew to become the primary participant to have not less than 15 receptions and throw a landing move in a sport, undertaking that feat in a 28-24 Week 3 win over the Vikings when he caught 18 passes for 215 yards and tossed a 49-yard TD move to receiver Mike Williams.
Allen has caught not less than 100 passes in 5 of the final seven seasons with 102 in 2017, 104 in 2019, 100 in 2020, 106 in 2021 and 108 in 2023.
In 2013, he set Chargers rookie receiving data with 71 receptions and 1,046 yards. After sustaining a season-ending torn ACL within the 2016 opener, Allen was named NFL Comeback Participant of the Yr in 2017 after main the NFL with 1,393 receiving yards.
With the acquisition of Allen, the Bears are the one NFL crew with two receivers who each compiled not less than 1,200 yards final season. Allen completed eleventh with 1,243 yards, whereas DJ Moore was sixth with a career-high 1,364 yards. Allen’s receivers coach with the Chargers the previous three seasons, Chris Beatty, is coming into his first 12 months in that function with the Bears.
The deal for Allen comes virtually precisely a 12 months after the Bears acquired Moore in a blockbuster commerce with the Panthers. In that deal, which was agreed to March 10, 2023, the Bears despatched the No. 1 choose in final 12 months’s draft to Carolina in change for 2023 first- and second-round decisions, a 2024 first-round choice that ended up turning into the No. 1 total choose and a 2025 second-round selection.