Here is the disingenuous nature of this argument. Aaron Donald leads non-edge NFL defensive players in pressures. Zach Allen is tied for 10th with Christian Wilkins in that group.
Zach Allen has 20 pressures and 5 sacks.
Aaron Donald has 27 pressures and 6 sacks.
Christian Wilkins has 20 pressures and 6.5 sacks.
Deforest Buckner has 19 pressures and 5.5 sacks.
Quinnen Williams has 21 pressures and 3 sacks.
Chris Jones has 23 pressures and 7.5 sacks.
So here is the thing. If you crap all over Zach Allen's production, but are ok with all of these other players, including Wilkins who some on this board want to pay significantly more money than Allen gets paid, you are not looking at this objectively. Essentially, you don't want to pay any player who isn't have a top 5 year at their position or producing high variance stats like sacks and interceptions.
It's not just stats, although his stats aren't all you're making them out to be, all those players have careers far better than Allen. Many of them are having down years while Allen is peaking.
Allen is having an ok year, like he has most years, that's who he is. He's an ok player who has ok years. A completely anonymous guy that most NFL fans couldn't name if you showed them his picture.
He's fine. He's a decent addition to most rosters. Just not at $15.25m per year. I do not understand people going on about him like we lost Javon Hargrave or Cam Heyward.
He's Zach Seiler, who signed a 3 year $30.75m deal in August.
It would have been an enormous waste of resources to sign such a middling guy to a contract like that on a rebuilding roster. Zach Allen is a complimentary guy. He's never going to be the guy and I have no interest on paying as one.