Postgame Notes and Quotes: Bengals’ Commanders

Joe Burrow capped the Bengals’ first six-play drive with a 41-yard bomb to Ja’Marr Chase that gave Cincinnati the lead with just 3:23 left in the game. It was the Bengals’ fastest touchdown since Week 16 of the 2022 season at New England, when Tee Higgins found the end zone with 2:36 left in the first quarter.

The play marked Burrow’s 100th career touchdown pass in his 55th regular-season game, tying him for seventh among NFL quarterbacks to reach the 100-yard mark. It was also his 20th career touchdown pass of 40 or more yards, the most in the NFL since he entered the league in 2020.

For Chase, it was his 12th career 40-yard touchdown reception, the second-most in the league since his NFL debut in 2021 (Kansas City/Miami WR Tyreek Hill has 13). It was also Chase’s first 40-yard reception since his 76-yard touchdown in Week 13 of last season at Jacksonville.

Burrow found Chase on the right sideline for a 31-yard touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to pull the Bengals within five yards. That gave Chase his seventh career game with multiple receiving touchdowns, third-most in the NFL since entering the league in 2021.

Chase finished the game with a season-high six receptions for 118 yards. He now has 15 career games with 100-plus receiving yards, the eighth-most in the league since 2021.

Burrow connected with sophomore receiver Andrei Iosivas on a fourth-and-goal late in the third quarter, and the Princeton product reached the ball just over the goal line to cut Cincinnati’s deficit to one possession. It was Iosivas’ third touchdown of the season, and the seventh of his career on just 25 total receptions.

Evan McPherson’s 28-yard field goal midway through the second quarter marked his 100th career field goal attempt. His 84 field goals made are third-most in team history in the first 100 attempts by a kicker, behind Shayne Graham and Randy Bullock (87 each).

The linebacking duo once again completes the tackle column

Logan Wilson and Germaine Pratt combined for 18 tackles, each finishing with nine to tie for the team lead. Combining Wilson’s total tonight with his 12 stops in each of the first two weeks, he became the first Bengals player since linebacker Nick Vigil in 2018 to have nine or more tackles in three straight games to open a season.

Pratt and Wilson each have 33 total tackles this season, tying them for the most tackles in the first three weeks of a season by a Bengals player since at least 1987. They are also two of four Bengals to have 30-plus stops in the team’s first three games, joining Vigil (32 in 2018) and linebacker Dhani Jones (32 in 2008).

The Bengals scored on six of their seven offensive drives, the only exception being a missed field goal in the second quarter. Washington, meanwhile, scored on all six of its true possessions (two kneels at the end of the first half and the end of the game). It was the first NFL game since 1940 in which neither team punted or committed a turnover.