Ja'Marr Chase will be back this week, but while he was out, Tee Higgins proved he could be a true No. 1 WR. RuleTheJungle
has proven over the course of Ja’Marr Chase’s absence with a hairline fracture in his hip that he can be the engine of a high-end NFL passing attack. Higgins has put up No. 1 receiver numbers in Chase’s absence.
While the sample size is admittedly small, through four games without Chase, Higgins has combined for 26 catches on 36 targets for 371 yards and two touchdowns. This prorates out to 110 receptions for 1577 yards and eight touchdowns over a 17-game season. Last year, that reception and yardage total would have ranked top five in the NFL. Meanwhile, the Bengals have continued to produce, ranking fifth in offensive expected points added in these four games.
With Chase’s brilliance, it can be easy to overlook Higgins as a high-end contributor in Cincinnati’s passing game. Chase exploded onto the scene as a rookie, racking up 1,455 yards at a whopping clip of 18 yards per reception, ranking first in expected points added among all pass-catchers and establishing himself as one of the best players, period, in the NFL. Chase came in at third on ESPN’s Top 25 Players Under 25, behind Micah Parsons and Justin Jefferson.
His production without Chase this year is not the first prolonged stretch of elite play. Last season, Higgins failed to top 65 yards in Cincinnati’s first seven games of the season . However, in his last nine games, he caught 49 passes, averaged 92.8 yards per game, and scored four touchdowns. Prorated out to a 17-game season, which equates to 93 receptions for 1,577 yards and eight touchdowns, elite number one receiver production sustained over half a season.
Chase and Higgins are not only good players playing together, they are a complementary and synergistic fit for each other and quarterback Joe Burrow. While Chase is an explosive play machine that thrives off of yards after catch opportunities, Higgins makes his living on contested catches and winning with physicality, while also being an adept separator. Both players are a threat to make a chunk play on the outside at any time, even if that play may look different.
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