Bengals WR Ja'Marr Chase on pace to shatter personal goal for 2023 season
The Cincinnati Bengals don't play football this week, but if they did, wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase would likely catch a few passes here and there. Definitely five. Maybe 10. Sometimes even 15.Stacking receptions just so happens to be a target for Chase this year. Currently at 50 through six games, he's got his sights set […]
The Cincinnati Bengals don't play football this week, but if they did, wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase would likely catch a few passes here and there. Definitely five. Maybe 10. Sometimes even 15.
Stacking receptions just so happens to be a target for Chase this year. Currently at 50 through six games, he's got his sights set on breaking the Bengals' single season record. He's not one for revealing his goals to the public, but he did so in a recent epsiode in a recent episode of Renee All Dey.
"Okay, well I'll just do one of them and it's catches," Chase said almost reluctantly as if it would jinx him. "Most catches in a single season by a Bengals player: 112."
At the rate Chase is on, that record doesn't stand a chance of standing come January.
The current recorder holder is T.J. Houshmanzadeh, who hauled in 112 passes during the 2007 season. That season for the fan favorite wideout was also sandwiched between a 90-reception year and a 92-reception year before and after he set the franchise record. No one had more receptions than the 294 catches "Housh" recorded from 2006-08. That's not really relevant to Chase, but I think it's pretty cool.
112 is a lot. It was a dozen more than previous record set by Carl Pickens in 1996, who became the first Bengal to cross the century mark with exactly 100.
Chase is on pace to not just surpass Houshmanzadeh's record, he's set to obliterate it.
With an average of 8.33 receptions per game across a 17-game schedule, Chase is on track for 141.67 catches by the end of the year. We'll round that up to 142 for obvious reasons.
That would not only blow the current franchise record away, it would be the fourth-most receptions in NFL history in a single season. The all-time record holder is Michael Thomas with 149, and he accomplished it before the 17-game schedule in 2019.
Chase's current pace may not continue for the next two months, but he does need 63 in the Bengals' final 11 games to accomplish his true goal. That's 5.7 catches per game for a player who's caught at least five passes in every game thus far.
It's safe to say Housh's record is very much in danger.
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