Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images This was a wild weekend of NFL football. As playoff seeding is getting closer and closer to being finalized, some of the best performances at quarterback came from backups this week. Brandon Allen, obviously, being one of those backups. Allen’s prolific day against the Houston Texans earned him a nomination for being Week 16’s FedEx Air NFL Player of the Week. He joins Tom Brady and Andy Dalton of all quarterbacks as this week’s nominations: