Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow threw a three-yard walk-off to wide receiver Tee Higgins in overtime as Cincinnati kept its playoff hopes alive with a 30-24 win over Denver on Saturday evening.

Burrow finished with 412 yards and four total touchdowns, notching a 122.1 passer rating, while Higgins grabbed a game-high 11 catches for 131 yards and three scores. Burrow set up the game-winner with a 31-yard dime to Higgins down the left sideline on the previous play.

NOTES

Burrow Extends Record Streak

Burrow finished the game with 39 completions on 49 attempts for 412 yards and three touchdowns. It marked his eight consecutive game with at least 250 yards and three touchdown passes, extending the longest streak in NFL history.

Burrow also became the fourth quarterback in league history with three or more scoring passes in eight straight games, joining Tom Brady (10 straight in 2007), Peyton Manning (eight in 2004) and Andrew Luck (eight in 2018).

Burrow additionally finished the game with 139 career touchdown passes (regular season), which surpassed Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen and Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning for the third-most in NFL history in a player's first five seasons.

Burrow Breaks Single-Season Passing Yardage Record

Burrow finished the game with a league-leading 4,641 passing yards, which surpassed his own single-season team record of 4,611 in the 2021 season. Today's game was the seventh time this year he passed for 300 or more yards.

Three for Tee

Higgins brought in a season-high 11 catches for 131 yards and three touchdowns, including the three-yard game-winner in overtime. He is the fourth player in the NFL this season with three receiving touchdowns in a game, and the second Bengal, joining Ja'Marr Chase in Week 10 at Baltimore. Today was Higgins' first career three-touchdown performance.

Higgins' 11 receptions were one shy of his career high of 12, which he recorded in Week 16 of the 2021 season in a home win over Baltimore. His 131 receiving yards were the sixth-most in any game of his career.

Higgins now has a career-high 10 receiving touchdowns this season. He surpassed his previous career high of seven (2022 season) on his first touchdown of the game, a two-yarder from Burrow late in the second quarter that gave Cincinnati its first lead. Higgins also has eight scoring receptions over his last seven games played, the most in any seven-game stretch of his career.

Ja'Marr Surpasses Housh

Ja'Marr Chase recorded his 113th catch of the season early in the fourth quarter, which surpassed former Pro Bowler T.J. Houshmandzadeh's 112 in 2007 for the single-season Bengals record. Chase finished the night with nine grabs for 102 yards, moving his season receptions total to 117.

Burrow Hits 40

The first Higgins touchdown also marked Burrow's 40th touchdown pass of the 2024 campaign. He became the 11th quarterback in NFL history (first Bengal) to reach 40 scoring passes in a single season.

Burrow has at least one touchdown pass in 15 consecutive games, the second-longest streak of his career (includes regular season games only). His longest such streak is 23 straight games from Week 11 of the 2021 season through Week 18 of 2022.

Pratt Pick Sets Up Burrow Sneak

Germaine Pratt picked off Broncos quarterback Bo Nix late in the fourth quarter to get the ball back for the Bengals with just over two minutes remaining in the game. It marked Pratt's second interception of the season and his fourth takeaway.

Cincinnati capitalized on the turnover with a six-play, 59-yard drive capped off by a one-yard sneak by Burrow that gave the Bengals a 24-17 lead.

Burrow Leads Winning Drive in OT

After trading punts and a missed field goal, the Bengals got the ball back with 2:20 remaining in overtime. Burrow kickstarted the drive with a 16-yard completion to Andrei Iosivas, then on the next play pitched it to recently acquired Khalil Herbert, who drove through defenders for a 13-yard gain. Two snaps later, he launched a perfect deep ball down the left sidelines that Higgins caught in stride to set up a first-and-goal. The Bengals kept the ball in Burrow's hands, as he threw his league-leading 43rd touchdown pass and his first career overtime winner to Higgins at the front-left pylon.

Extra Points

• DE Cedric Johnson recorded his first career sack late in the second quarter, when he brought down Bo Nix for a six-yard loss to back the Broncos into a third-and-23.
• TE Mike Gesicki tied his career high with 10 catches for 86 yards. His previous 10-catch game occurred in Week 3 of the 2021 season at Las Vegas, when he played for Miami.
• WR Andrei Iosivas had a career-high 59 yards receiving on three catches. He has gone over 50 yards three times in 2024, including each of the last two weeks.

QUOTES

"We know we've had a good football team all along. In those games, it's disappointing that we came up short. It didn't change our process. It didn't change what our guys believed in. We didn't have to change everything we did. We still believed in what we were doing and now we've won four in a row, and now we've got to make it five in a row." - HC Zac Taylor on the team's ability to stay in playoff contention

"He's been resilient every step of the way, fighting through stuff. When he's on the field, he is a warrior." - HC Zac Taylor on Tee Higgins

"We know we can hang with anybody. We've proven that this year. We've played every single team close. So, it's just about making the plays down the stretch to win those games. Today, we did. The last four weeks we have, and we've got to continue to do it." - QB Joe Burrow on the team's ability to compete with any team they face

"It's amazing. It doesn't get any better than that. He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and it shows. He's done it all year." - WR Tee Higgins on playing with QB Joe Burrow

"It felt great. It was so special to be able to suit up with the team." - OT Orlando Brown Jr. on returning to the field after missing three weeks