The Bengals will attempt to stack road wins against two AFC contenders Sunday as they travel to Buffalo to take on the Bills.

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Scouting Report

By: Michael Hull

Bills Offense

Buffalo ran all over Pittsburgh in Week 13, gaining 249 yards on the ground. It was the offense's most rushing yards in a game since Week 15 of 2023 vs. Dallas and the most any team has tallied in Pittsburgh since 1975. The Bills have three games this season with over 200 rushing yards, tied for the most in the NFL. As a whole, Buffalo ranks second in the NFL in yards per game (381) and fifth in points per game (28.1).

RB James Cook led the charge with a career-high 32 carries for 144 yards in Week 13, while backup RB Ray Davis had nine carries for 62 yards, more yards than he had in Weeks 1-12 combined.

On the year, Cook ranks second in the NFL in rushing yards with 1,228 and has averaged 5.3 yards per carry. His eight rushing touchdowns are tied for sixth most, but he also has four fumbles, tied for the second most among rushers.

2024 league MVP Josh Allen has added 11 rushing touchdowns of his own this season, the second most in the NFL, but also has five fumbles, tied for the most in the league. He's carried the ball 78 times this season, the third most in the league among quarterbacks, and leads all quarterbacks with 409 rushing yards. Allen broke Cam Newton's record for the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in Week 13, scoring his 76th career touchdown on the ground.

Allen has 19 touchdowns through the air to 10 interceptions this season after tossing six last season. He has thrown an interception in four straight contests. Still, he ranks ninth in PFF passing grade among quarterbacks with at least 100 dropbacks (75.8) and seventh in offensive grade (82.6). Per PFF, the Wyoming product has thrown seven interceptions when he's pressured this year, tied for the most in the NFL, and his 55.0 PFF passing grade under pressure ranks 16th among QBs with at least 10 dropbacks under pressure. Since Week 10, the Bills have 11 giveaways, the second most in the NFL.

WR Khalil Shakir leads the team with 569 receiving yards as Allen continues to spread the ball around. Per NextGenStats, Shakir ranks second in the NFL in yards after the catch (437) among receivers. TE Dalton Kincaid has only played in eight games this year, but he still ranks second on the team in yards (448) and is tied for the team lead with four receiving touchdowns. He's even with Keon Coleman, who was a healthy scratch in Week 12 but scored a touchdown in Week 13. Cook has 236 yards receiving, the 14th most among running backs.

Bills Defense

Buffalo has allowed 304.5 yards per game this season, the eighth fewest in the league. The defense is allowing the third-most rushing yards per game (141.3), but is coming off a season-low 58 yards on the ground allowed against the Steelers.

Its pass coverage has been the team's calling card. After allowing 108 passing yards against the Steelers, the Bills have allowed a league-low 163.2 yards per game through the air and have allowed fewer than 175 passing yards in five of the last six games. Since the team's Week 7 bye, they rank fourth in EPA (expected points added) allowed per dropback and have the fourth-lowest completion percentage allowed on the season (59.5). CB Christian Benford shadowed Steelers' WR1 D.K. Metcalf. Benford more than held his own, though, and didn't allow a catch when covering Metcalf. Per NextGenStats, Benford has shadowed in five of the team's last six games, allowing seven receptions on 15 targets and a 35.1 passer rating. Rookie corner Maxwell Hairston missed the team's first six games with injury but has allowed just six receptions on 13 targets in 101 coverage snaps since returning in Week 8.

The Bills added veteran edge rusher Joey Bosa in the offseason, and he's made an impact so far in 2025: Per PFF, Bosa's 41 pressures ranks 21st in the NFL among edge rushers and his 90.1 pass-rush grade ranks fifth. Bosa is dealing with a hamstring injury coming out of the win over Pittsburgh.

Buffalo placed K Tyler Bass on injured reserve in Week 1, and it was officially announced he will not return this year after undergoing surgery last week. Veteran Matt Prater has taken over kicking duties this year, making 17 of 19 attempts, and he is 16 of 17 from inside 50 yards.

What to Watch For

By: Diego Branda

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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