The Bengals aim for their second straight road win when they take on the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium on Sunday. The game kicks off at 1 p.m. on FOX (Cincinnati’s channel 19).

Here is what to watch for:

Burrow vs. Allen, Part III

Sunday's Bengals-Bills matchup once again features two of the top quarterbacks in the NFL in Cincinnati's Joe Burrow and Buffalo's Josh Allen. The two have met twice before, with Burrow holding the upper hand in a 2022 AFC Divisional round win at Buffalo and a 2023 Week 9 contest on Sunday Night Football at Paycor Stadium. Allen, however, is coming off an MVP season in 2024 and already has accounted for 30 total touchdowns (19 passing, 11 rushing) this year.

Burrow made his return to action in the Bengals' Week 13 win at Baltimore, after missing the previous nine games due to a toe injury. After shaking off some self-admitted rust in the first half, he went on to complete 24 of 46 passes for 261 yards and two touchdowns, with both scoring throws coming in the third quarter. Burrow enters Sunday's matchup with Buffalo having won each of his last eight starts, dating back to Week 14 of last season — which marks over a full calendar year since his last loss.

In his two previous games against the Bills, Burrow completed 67.5 percent of his passes for 590 total yards and four touchdowns with no turnovers, good for a 105.7 passer rating.

Ja'Marr Chases Down 1K Yards

All-Pro receiver Ja’Marr Chase enters Sunday with 971 receiving yards this season, the fifth-most in the NFL. With 29 more against the Bills, he would become the fifth player in league history to reach the 1,000-yard receiving mark in each of his first five career seasons, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss, former Bengal A.J. Green, Tampa Bay's Mike Evans and Minnesota's Justin Jefferson.

"That's my goal. I want to make sure I get that every year," said Chase on reaching 1,000 receiving yards. "That's me at least getting to something that I want to reach every year that's possible. Me capitalizing on what I've done from the previous years won't be easy, of course, so I think me just setting a standard of getting to 1,000 is going to push me to whatever limit I want to be at."

Chase also currently is tied for second in the NFL with 86 receptions this season, which has improved his career total to 481. With one more, he would tie former Miami receiver Jarvis Landry (482) for the fifth-most catches in a player's first five seasons in NFL history. He has a chance to become just the third player ever to amass at least 500 receptions in his first five seasons, with the only two to previously reach that mark being former New Orleans receiver Michael Thomas (510) and Detroit receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (505).

In his two previous games against the Bills, Chase has nine receptions for 102 yards and a touchdown. He opened the scoring in the 2022 AFC Divisional win with a 28-yard touchdown catch to cap off the Bengals' first drive.

Chase Brown Eyes Seven in a Row

Halfback Chase Brown has totaled 100 or more yards from scrimmage in each of the last six games, dating to the Week 7 win over Pittsburgh. It is the longest streak in Bengals history, surpassing a streak of five games recorded on four previous occasions, and it also is the longest active streak in the NFL. The last player to record at least 100 scrimmage yards in seven straight contests was San Francisco's Christian McCaffrey in Weeks 1-7 of this year.

Since his streak began in Week 7, Brown ranks sixth in the NFL in scrimmage yards per game (114.5), seventh in total scrimmage yards (687) and ninth in rushing yards (502). He has 991 total scrimmage yards this season, just nine shy of his second consecutive 1,000-yard campaign.

Brown and the Cincinnati offense will take on a Bills defense that is allowing 141.3 rushing yards per game this season, the third-most in the NFL.

Offense Shoots for Another Fast Start

The Bengals' offense has been among the most efficient in the NFL as of late when it comes to putting points on the board early. Cincinnati has scored on its opening drive in five straight games, tied for the longest streak by any team in the NFL this season (Detroit, Weeks 5-10). Since Week 8, the Bengals have scored a total of 32 points in the first quarter, which is the third-most in the AFC in that span.

Conversely, Buffalo has not allowed points on its opponents' first drive in six consecutive games, which is the second-longest streak in the NFL this season behind a seven-game stretch by San Francisco.

Winter Warriors

Since the 2022 season, Cincinnati has compiled a 14-3 record in regular-season games played in December and January. The 14 wins are tied with Buffalo and Detroit for the most in the NFL in that span.

The Bengals have enjoyed late-season streaks to surge up the AFC standings in recent years, beginning in that 2022 campaign, when they won each of their final five regular-season games in the midst of what was a team-record 10-game winning streak. The following year, Cincinnati entered December with a 5-6 record before rattling off three straight wins to climb back into the playoff picture.

In 2024, the Bengals dropped their first December game, then finished off the schedule with five straight wins to vault from 4-8 to 9-8 for their fourth consecutive winning season.

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