Joe Burrow, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, could join a pretty elite group this week.
According to Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk, Joe Burrow has a chance to become only the fifth quarterback in NFL history to reach 5,000 passing yards and 45 touchdowns in one season.
“Burrow has 4,641 passing yards and 42 passing touchdowns, so 359 yards and three touchdowns against the Steelers would bring his season total to 5,000 yards and 45 touchdowns.
“That has only happened four times before: Dan Marino in 1984, Drew Brees in 2011, Peyton Manning in 2013, and Patrick Mahomes in 2018,” Smith wrote for Pro Football Talk.
However, as Smith points out, Burrow has the potential to make even more history.
“Burrow also has three or more touchdown passes in eight straight games, and if he does it again he’ll join Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks in NFL history who have thrown at least three touchdown passes in nine games in a row,” according to Smith.
Needless to say, this is pretty insane news, especially given that the Bengals are unlikely to make the playoffs despite his dominant season, and it sparked a lot of reactions on social media.
If you told Bengals fans before the season this would be the case, they’d probably be thinking just give us the Lombardi,” one fan wrote on X.
“No question, he should be the MVP if he leads them to the Playoffs,” someone else said.
“He’s my MVP,” another fan said.
“Whether you play 17 games or not, that 5k/45 TD combination is extremely rare. Only Brady, Manning, Brees, and Marino have completed it. Stats are stats, but context is everything – Burrow’s performance with a patched O-line and rotating WR corps is next level. When elite quarterbacks face adversity, they only hit these marks at a 31% rate,” someone else said.
“The race for MVP gets more interesting each week,” another fan wrote.
“Burrow has been lights out this year!” someone else commented.
Burrow leads the NFL in both passing yards and passing touchdowns and would almost certainly be an MVP candidate if his team did not fail to make the playoffs despite a win over the weekend.
