With 11 catches for 264 yards and three touchdowns, Ja’Marr Chase put up a single-game stat line Thursday replicated just one different time in Cincinnati Bengals historical past — by Chase himself, in 2022.
Within the Bengals’ 35-34 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday, Chase grew to become the primary participant in NFL historical past to document a number of video games of 250-plus receiving yards and two-plus touchdowns in a profession. Chase first put up a equally monstrous stat line on Jan. 2, 2022, when he pulled in a franchise-record 266 yards on 11 receptions with three touchdowns.
Whereas Chase fell simply in need of matching his personal franchise document, it wasn’t for an absence of alternatives. He merely ran out of time.
The final of Chase’s yards got here on a 5-yard landing within the last minute to drag the Bengals inside one level. Cincinnati’s two-point conversion try fell incomplete, protecting Chase from including to his stat line in additional time.
All three of Chase’s touchdowns got here within the second half, the primary on a weaving 67-yard catch-and-run by means of your complete Ravens secondary. The second was a 70-yard rainbow reference to Joe Burrow halfway by means of the fourth quarter.
Two TDs over 60 yards tonight, nbd.@JoeyB x @Real10jayy__ #CINvsBAL on @NFLonPrime
pic.twitter.com/NUtbXOBLWx— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) November 8, 2024
Chase now owns the Bengals franchise document for 60-plus-yard landing receptions with 12, topping the earlier document of 10 held by Isaac Curtis.
After Thursday, Chase has now put up two of the 23 260-yard performances in NFL historical past. Of these 23 video games, solely seven of these performances added three-plus touchdowns, and Chase owns two of these.
Chase continues to be enjoying on his rookie contract after he failed to return to a long-term settlement with the Bengals earlier than the season. Throughout Thursday’s recreation, his agent Caitlin Aoki posted on X, “He retains making my job simpler.”
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