The original article also had the sentence:
“If this works, then stats really are for losers, I guess.”
It was never about “maybe Allen will be a statistical outlier and succeed after all.” The entire narrative around that draft was the new analytics models vs the old dinosaurs of the NFL who draft players because they are tall.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200111020229/https://www.barstoolsports.com/draft_josh_allen/
https://sites.psu.edu/nealondiscussion/2018/09/21/the-satire-of-josh-allen-is-tall/
It was all over draft coverage that year and the people who wanted to draw attention to predictive analytics planted their flag in the ground on Josh Allen being a bust from the start and anyone who thought he would succeed didn’t really understand the sport.