ALLEN AT LOSS FOR WORDS MEETING LEGEND KELLY

N.Y.» The only ORCHARD PARK, time Bills rookie quarterback Josh Allen ever felt rattled on his first day of practice was shortly after the session ended Friday.

That’s when coach Sean Mcdermott escorted the firstround pick to the sideline and introduced him to Jim Kelly in what became a meeting of the team’s hopeful future and legendary past.

“I’m still shaking from meeting him,” Allen said.

Though Allen grew up in central California and played college at Wyoming, the 21year-old is very aware of who Kelly is.

“It’s all on the wall,” Allen said, pointing the four AFC Championship banners the Kelly-led teams won from 1990-93.

Allen also knows how tough Kelly is in his ongoing battle with cancer.

“I can’t say anything else but he’s a special man. He’s been through a lot,” he said. “And to be in the spirits that he is and to come out here and show support for the Buffalo Bills, that just shows to me how much he means to Buffalo and Buffalo means to him. It’s awesome.”

Chargers coach Lynn to get college degree.

COSTA MESA, CALIF.» Anthony Lynn left Texas Tech in 1992 for a life in the NFL, he was only six class hours shy of earning his degree.

Although he won two Super Bowl rings as a running back before beginning a coaching career that eventually put him in charge of the Los Angeles Chargers last season, Lynn never forgot about missing his college graduation.

On Saturday, the Chargers’ 49-year-old head coach will take that long-delayed walk to get his diploma when he receives his bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies at UNLV.

Shurmur: Collins shouldn’t talk about Flowers situation.

» New EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.

York Giants coach Pat Shurmur thinks Landon Collins should just speak for himself.

The Giants safety recently made headlines with radio comments that teammate Ereck Flowers was “unhappy” the team signed Patriots left tackle Nate Solder. The move effectively flipped Flowers to right tackle.

“That’s not for Landon to talk about,” Shurmur said Saturday at the rookie minicamp.

Flowers has been the starting left tackle the past three seasons after the Giants took him with the ninth pick overall in the 2014 draft. The Giants recently declined to pick up the fifth-year option of Flowers’ contract for $12.5 million in 2019. The Associated Press