Postgame notes and quotes: Commanders at Bengals

Joe Burrow capped the Bengals' six-play opening drive with a 41-yard pass to Ja'Marr Chase that put Cincinnati ahead just 3:23 into the game. It was the Bengals' fastest touchdown since Week 16 of the 2022 season in New England, when Tee Higgins reached the end zone 2:36 into the first quarter.

The play marked Burrows' 100th touchdown pass in his 55th regular season game, making him the seventh-fastest quarterback in NFL history to reach the 100-yard mark. It was also his 20th touchdown pass of 40 or more yards, the longest in the NFL since he entered the league in 2020.

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

Burrow found Chase down the right sideline for a 31-yard touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to cut the Bengals to five. In doing so, Chase recorded his seventh career game with multiple receiving touchdowns, the third-most in the NFL since entering the league in 2021.

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

Burrow made a pass to sophomore receiver Andrei Iosivas on fourth down late in the third quarter, and the Princeton product got the ball just inside 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 passes caught.

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

Linebacker duo fills the tackle column again

Logan Wilson and Germaine Pratt combined for 18 tackles, leaving each player with nine tackles to share the team lead. Combined with Wilson's total tonight and his 12 stops in each of the first two weeks, he becomes the first Bengals player since linebacker Nick Vigil in 2018 to record nine or more tackles in three consecutive games to start a season.

Pratt and Wilson each have a total of 33 tackles this season, the most by any Bengals player in the first three weeks of a season since at least 1987. They are also two of four Bengals to ever record more than 30 total 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, with the only outlier being a missed field goal attempt in the second quarter. Washington, on the other hand, scored on each of its six possessions (two kneeldowns at the end of the first half and at the end of the game). It was the first NFL game since 1940 in which neither team committed a punt or a turnover.