Ja'Marr Chase believes NFL defenses will adjust to him
Whenever a rookie wide receiver starts to shine in the National Football League, that player is bound to receive more and more attention from defenses as time passes. That’s how any level of football works.
Just as the receiver/offensive coordinator are trying to make plays there’s a defensive coordinator/defender trying to figure out how to shut that player down.
Opposing defensive coordinators are going to need to figure out a way to stop Bengals rookie wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase. He’s already become the youngest player in league history to score four touchdowns in his first three games. If they don’t find a way to stop him soon, then he’ll continue to light up the scoreboard for the Bengals.
He says he hasn’t seen very much double coverage in his first three games so far.
“I would probably say I’ve seen it the past two games a little bit,” Chase said. “I knew Steelers threw it at me maybe a couple times today. I’m not really sure how many times I’ve seen it. I’ve had a bunch of times in college but so far in the NFL I’ve only seen it twice [against the Bears and Steelers].”
The problem with stopping Chase is he’s no ordinary receiver. Plenty of people were freaking out about his preseason drops. Chase has quickly shown the phenomenal talent that made him the top receiver selected in the 2021 NFL Draft. His tape that he put out in the 2019-2020 season was nearly flawless.
PFF recently predicted the supremely talented wideout to haul in over 1,000 receiving yards in his rookie year. If he keeps up his current pace, he’s going to blow that mark out of the water.
Chase was making plays again today against the Pittsburgh Steelers secondary, hauling in two touchdown catches on the day.
Here’s one of them below.
Chase at LSU
Ja’Marr Chase was virtually unguardable during the entire 2019-2020 college football season. His historic season was a big part of why LSU won the 2020 National Championship.
There were obviously plenty of other talented pieces on offense there, but Joe Burrow, Clyde-Edwards Helaire, and Justin Jefferson and he made music together on the gridiron as college teammates.
The historic season made many members of the media gush about the Tigers‘ offense and put it among the best in college football history.
Chase was named a unanimous All-American in 2019. He also won the 2019 Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation’s top receiver.
In 2019, the Louisiana native hauled in 1,780 receiving yards and 20 touchdowns, both SEC records for each stat category.