CINCINNATI — Lamar Jackson threw four touchdown passes and led a comeback from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit on Sunday as the visiting Baltimore Ravens rallied for a 41-38 overtime win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Derrick Henry’s 51-yard run in overtime set up Justin Tucker’s 24-yard game-winning field goal with 3:33 left in overtime.
Holder Ryan Rehkow bobbled the snap on Evan McPherson 53-yard field goal attempt that would have won the game with 4:31 left in overtime.
Joe Burrow threw a career-high five touchdowns and Ja’Marr Chase caught 10 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns as the Cincinnati Bengals couldn’t protect three different 10-point leads.
Burrow, who during the week said he’d have to play “damn-near perfect,” finished 30 of 39 for 392 yards.
Chase had touchdown catches of 41 yards and a catch-and-run of 70 yards in the fourth quarter to give him five touchdowns in three games.
The Ravens won the coin toss to start overtime and drove into Cincinnati territory before Jackson fumbled the shotgun snap and Cincinnati linebacker Germaine Pratt recovered at the Baltimore 38.
Henry, who ran for 199 yards in a win over Buffalo a week earlier, was held to 40 yards on 14 carries before the 51-yard run.
Jackson made a spectacular stiff arm of Cincinnati rusher Sam Hubbard and threw across his body to tight end Isaiah Likely for a 6-yard touchdown as the QB was running out of bounds to cut Baltimore’s deficit to 38-35 with 5:24 left in regulation.
Marlon Humphrey intercepted Burrow with 3:07 left in the fourth to give the Ravens the ball at their 28. Jackson drove the Ravens 34 yards and Baltimore tied the game, 38-38, on Tucker 56-yard field goal with 1:35 remaining.
Henry ran it in from one yard out with 8:54 left in the first quarter for his 100th career touchdown from scrimmage, giving the Ravens an early 7-0 lead. Henry would cross another career milestone in the second quarter when he surpassed the 10,000-yard career rushing plateau.
The Bengals defense turned the momentum of the game when Hubbard tackled Henry in the end zone for a safety to draw Cincinnati within five, 14-9, with 5:47 left in the second quarter.
The Bengals took possession with 34 seconds left in the half and Burrow drove them over midfield before lobbing a 41-yard touchdown to Chase, giving Cincinnati a 17-14 halftime lead.
As they did last week in Carolina, the Bengals took the opening drive of the second half and forged a two-score lead at 24-14.
The Bengals lost starting cornerback Dax Hill to a right knee injury midway through the first quarter on Sunday. Hill attempted to stay with receiver Zay Flowers on a third-and-8 when his right knee buckled.
–Mike Petraglia, Field Level Media