Ja'Marr Chase reveals the downside of scoring so many touchdowns for the Bengals this season
No one in the NFL has scored more touchdowns than Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase, whose 15 scores are closing in on a franchise record with four games left to play. Finding the end zone has become easy for the soon-to-be All-Pro wideout. Figuring out what to do afterwards, however, is becoming harder. Chase was […]
No one in the NFL has scored more touchdowns than Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase, whose 15 scores are closing in on a franchise record with four games left to play.
Finding the end zone has become easy for the soon-to-be All-Pro wideout. Figuring out what to do afterwards, however, is becoming harder. Chase was asked Thursday if he's running out of touchdown celebrations.
"Low key," Chase said with a laugh. "Low key, yeah."
The news seemed to hit hard for former Bengals wideout and Ring of Honor member Chad Johnson, who was a celebration aficionado back in his day.
There's only so many variants of the "Griddy," I suppose. Chase teamed up with Tee Higgins on "Monday Night Football" with a cranked-up version for his first touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys. We didn't get a clear look at what his second celebration entailed after he scored the game-winning touchdown.
Of course, there's no harm going back to the classics, but he'll need something memorable for touchdown #18 when it comes about. That will give him the Bengals' single-season touchdown record, beating out Carl Pickens' 17 scores from 1995.
But it's not the only record Chase is closing in on. He needs 20 more receptions to set a new franchise single-season mark with 113. He already has the single-season yardage record at 1,455 and needs just 136 more to best that.
20 receptions, 136 yards, and three touchdowns is entirely doable in four games for any starting wideout, let alone the most productive one in the league.
Chase is on his way to making history both in Cincinnati and beyond. Surely he'll think of new ways to celebrate what's coming.
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Just some friends being friends.
