Ja’Marr Chase expects the NFL to see its first 2,000-yard receiving season by a wide receiver within the next three years.
Considering the Bengals star is the reigning triple crown winner with 1,708 yards and 17 touchdowns on 127 receptions last season, plus the league’s highest-paid wideout by a wide margin, Chase has every expectation that he’ll be the one to do it — if it’s not his former LSU teammate.
“Me and Justin (Jefferson), of course,” Chase told CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin this week when asked about the most likely wideouts to finally eclipse 2,000 yards.
Though Chase enjoyed the best season of any wide receiver in 2024, his buddy Jefferson has actually come closer to cracking the elusive 2,000-yard receiving mark.
Chase’s 1,708 receiving yards ranks 14th for a single season all time, while Jefferson’s 1,809 yards in 2022 ranks sixth. Former Lion Calvin Johnson holds the single-season record, coming up 36 yards short of 2K during the 2012 campaign with 1,964 receiving yards.
The Seahawks’ Cooper Kupp is the only other WR to ever hit 1,900-plus yards — he totaled 1,947 in 2021, the most recent triple crown season prior to Chase’s — while other active players with top-10 single-season receiving totals include Tyreek Hill (1,799 in 2023) and CeeDee Lamb (1,749 in 2023).
There are certainly individuals capable, plus competition to foster such a record-setting season.
Chase perhaps is in the best situation to make it happen of all those listed above, firmly in his prime and sporting a mind meld with one of league’s best quarterbacks, Joe Burrow.